Josiah Gogarty
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Cardigan evangelist. Writer @BritishGQ & occasionally elsewhere.
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What is the suit for in 2024? Went long on answering this very vexed question. Featuring pinstriped bankers, tracksuited hedgies, mods, the King of the Dudes, and
@jimmymacmusic
in a Barcelona heatwave
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Delighted to say I’ve just started at
@BritishGQ
as a full-time writer! Will be writing about all things culture/lifestyle – particularly interested in expanding our coverage of cool non-fiction stuff. Get at me on the email format you’d expect
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What’s the deal with Caffè Concerto, that chain of chintzy restaurants in central London? Tackled a mini white whale of mine here
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@afneil
If any other journalists DO want to be featured in our fine publication give me a bell 📲
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Spoke to Clacton Labour candidate and menswear man of the moment
@jovanforclacton
. Discussed Windrush style, his own sartorial (not political) overlap with Nigel Farage, and the virtues of a good cardigan
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Whatever happens career-wise this will remain my opus
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Some thoughts on Soho House, the members’ club with 250,000 members
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A cockwomble war dub (I am not a huge fan of some of my fellow travellers)
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It was written
I'm not saying anyone should vote Tory.
But...
After the next election the Tories won't even have enough MPs to fill their allocated committee roles. This is not good.
A lack of opposition breeds lazy govt, and this country needs good govt more than any time since WW2.
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Taking a stand against the mate-industrial complex
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I’ve declared a postcode war
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!!
@ObsNewReview
@alastair_curtis
@sarah_donaldson
@ShahidhaBari
Shortlisted for the Observer / Burgess Prize
Josiah Gogarty for reviewing Stormzy at Glastonbury:
"The performance was a symbolic tool, designed to use one of the nation’s biggest platforms to proclaim the power of Black British music and Black British people."
@josiahgogarty
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For Prospect I spoke to
@maxdaniellawton
, translator of Vladimir Sorokin’s mad, magnificent novel Blue Lard, and much else besides. Dinner with Bret Easton Ellis and heavy metal with Pussy Riot also feature
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Once again I find myself writing about cafes for The New Statesman. A class analysis of Gail's this time, featuring a criminally understudied archetype in British elite politics: Barnes man and woman
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Had a lot of fun writing this *extremely* hard-hitting piece of social commentary:
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Are you a guy who likes reading Wikipedia for fun? I know for a fact that a lot of you are. If so, I'd love to chat to you for a GQ piece – comment here/DM me! Wd be grateful for RTs too 🙏
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A tribute to my favourite social network (not this one)
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Went down memory lane for this one
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Enjoyed The French Dispatch but let’s be honest: Wes Anderson films are just Marvel movies for people with tote bags
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Chatted with
@chaykak
about his “algorithm cleanse” away from brain-numbing feeds like this one, as outlined in his excellent new book Filterworld
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In which I get angry about a bookshelf
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Me and Marty versus Marvel movies 🥊
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Hilarious how rather than the govt using their in-house team of jargon-loving Oxbridge grads (the civil service), they're hiring a different group of jargon-loving Oxbridge grads and paying them 10 times as much
Exclusive: UK govt is paying management consultants the equivalent of million and a half pound salaries to work on Test & Trace.
I’ve seen documents showing senior staff from Boston Consulting Group are being paid day rates of around £7k, equivalent to £1.5m on an annual basis.
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Wrote about midwits, and why, unfortunately, they are sometimes right
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Euros. Starmer. Glasto. Communed with the zeitgeist and it said: “Peroni”
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A column combining two of my favourite pastimes: complaining about Britain's GDP per capita, and listening to
@donetodeath
and
@themjeans
talk about LA grocery shops. "Why are Americans so much richer than us?"
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For the first time in 38 years, a single bead of sweat runs down the trembling, ruddy forehead of Prince Andrew
BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell, long-time friend & confidante of paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, has been arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire & charged by federal prosecutors.
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Am slightly unnerved by the Beatles’ new song
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Putting forward my hottest literary take here – summer holidays are for the most depressing, challenging books you can manage, because when else will you have the time and energy – and humbly offering a few suggestions
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Something on how the upcoming Elvis hologram show is weirdly fitting for a guy we’ve always known as a disembodied image (includes obligatory Blade Runner 2049 ref)
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In which I try to make “rap Gaullism” a thing
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lightweight, waterproof plastic birkenstocks WAY better than the crumbly, stanky cork ones
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I know about half a dozen Taylor Swift songs. I went to the first European date of the Eras Tour in Paris last night. It kinda slapped
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Ataturk mausoleum in Ankara. On a different timeline we have one of these for Cromwell
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Tag yourself (I’m BSO)
Presenting the Based-Evil-Turbulence index (or ‘BETI’) in
@The_Fence_Mag
!
If you wish to know your BETI personality type is, I will tell you. I am the only licensed operator of the system.
I also do political, romantic, and commercial consultations on request.
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Snobbery is bad. But do we want billionaires to always feel like the biggest person in the room? My attempt to arbitrate the lesser of two evils
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Weekend re-up for my sartorial long read — on the suit’s changing social function, and how the menswear’s thread of decreasing formality took us from Henry VIII to Sam Bankman-Fried
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Wrote about skiing! A lil slalom through climate change, class analysis and Chalet Girl. “It’s all downhill from here: how skiing priced out the middle classes.”
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Dominic Cummings is doing a no10 hiring drive and I’m feeling personally attacked
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Why are brands so keen to style themselves as revolutionaries? Almost entirely because of a 1960s ad for a Volkswagen Beetle. Did something on Thomas Frank's The Conquest of Cool for UnHerd's Xmas reads
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Is Taylor Swift too big to headline Glastonbury, or is Glastonbury not as big as it used to be? Wrote about an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object
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Wrote about Dune: Part Two, which is very good *because* it’s very serious. Directors don’t need to force in jokes any more because internet memes do it for them
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The tragedy of being great at cultural imperialism is that every other nation on earth understands you better than you understand them
As the
#Euro2020
final approaches, the English seem utterly confused about what a victory for this particular team would mean.
@RyuSpaeth
writes
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go get it
♨️Issue 6 is here♨️
With fiction by
@mitteleuropean
, essays from
@jadeAfitton
,
@_F_B_G_
&
@RSmythFreelance
, investigations by
@edcumming
&
@HShukman
, comic shorts from
@tomowolade
,
@JoshMcloughlin
,
@moveincircles
,
@josiahgogarty
,
@RichGiptar
,
@John_S_Phipps
&
@bertiebrandes
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My first freelance piece in far too long, tackling the big question of the day: why do bankers love techno? Thanks to Industry’s
@mnadown
for the key insights and learnings
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There's no better high
The strange and enduring schadenfreude of coming across someone who was much cooler than you at university and finding out they went into corporate law
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Just as Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for blues licks, I wonder if Satan sidles up to UK dance duos and offers fame and fortune, at a cost of their shows being filled with Balham marketing execs. First Bicep, now Overmono
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Hottest periodical of 2020
HOT OFF THE PRESS - the fab new XCity magazine. All 134 pages written and produced by Magazine MA students
@cityjournalism
. We couldn't be prouder at City as this was done in half usual time as uni closed. It's a beaut! Copies posted to City PG journo alumni from today
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Continued GQ’s irregular emoji series (after
@olivia_ovenden
on 🫠 and
@jackarking
on 👍) with a takedown of the boomer-beloved, rage-inducing 😉
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@Will___lloyd
@GavJacobson
@NewStatesman
FT Weekend, the leftist's favourite newspaper, catching a stray bullet here
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@The_Fence_Mag
is basically literary/media twitter with more semicolons, which is practically the highest praise I could offer anything
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In which I bravely out myself as a massive nerd
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Very very fun piece
'There are drinks with a minor Gandhi in Bombay, afternoon tutorials with Parul Sehgal in New York and Café Cecilia brunches with Kamila Shamsie in London.'
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Similarly, guys going out to dinner on summer holidays really should be wearing a shirt and long trousers. You're eating spaghetti vongole by the sea – it's a nice activity, so dress nice
i often see women wearing nice outfits for Friday/ Saturday dinners at upscale restaurants and their male partners making no effort and it seems like such a wasted opportunity. if you're going to pay $30 for spaghetti, why not make it a nice outing?
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Perceptive point in
@Will___lloyd
's vg piece about Stewart's "distrust of abstract doctrine". It's weird how right and left call him a soppy lib given this ur-conservative trait
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This came up in the course of work today and I urge everyone to read – my all-time favourite column
Glenn O'Brien on statues from 2001 – specifically, that every human likeness in American public space should be replaced w abstract expressionist murals. Would be pretty great tbf.
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This isn't how I remember the M.I.A. song going
‘Lived fast, died young and left an unbeautiful corpse, more or less suicided by poverty and drink at 34 (the autopsy indicated tuberculous meningitis, but it was absinthe that did him in)’
Hal Foster on Albert Jarry at the
@MorganLibrary
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Carrie currently ripping off the gold wallpaper and stuffing it into an Aspinall holdall
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I know we live in an age of cancel culture but can we please stop 'cutting ties'. The rise of smart-casual has given them enough to worry about.
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Good piece. The ‘Fred Again is basic’ line is also complicated by what he did between songwriting for Sheeran and becoming huge — namely, releasing a really good EP with Headie One that offers a pretty unique take on UK rap
On Fred Again, authentocracy, appropriation, nostalgia and musical afterlives for
@TheFaceMagazine
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My only recreational activity atm is putting on the new Bicep album and pretending I'm in an episode of Industry
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In the latest Monocle issue: my dispatch from Åland, a Finnish (but Swedish-speaking) archipelago grappling with its demilitarised status since the Ukraine invasion
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My very serious, very scientific and completely objective ranking of the hottest book covers, by series
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Happy Midnight Request Linemas to all who celebrate
20 years ago today,
@I_Skream
made “Midnight Request Line”
On Christmas Day 2003, a 17 year old Skream made one of the most important dubstep tracks of all time on Fruity Loops
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Lovely piece
'The Mid-Antrim 150 is a 3.5-mile motorbike race that takes place on public roads, sometimes at speeds of almost 200mph, around the village of Clough in County Antrim, Northern Ireland...'
A fantastic investigation from
@killianfkelly
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Too many hot takes and too few basic foodstuffs out there rn
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Wrote about the Lib Dems
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Wrote about how that expensive day festival you went to has become a hyper-sponsored corporate hellscape
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Put on the uncut gems soundtrack while cooking dinner and honestly I never thought linguine could be so panic-inducing
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Wrote about why graffiti has more artistic value than Banksy
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@jameskrishacker
@_robhak
@poa_alpina
@_bmf6
@doll_hearts
@mollyygilroy
@MaddyyParker
@PodJourno
@robbiecollins57
@MaxCopeman
these guys have all the clout
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🚨 big content alert 🚨
Issue 4 is available to buy online and at newsstands now.
Investigations from
@annasergi
, essays from
@JohnnyLucas1
and
@_F_B_G_
, short stories from
@LamornaAsh
and
@omarthetailor
, and comic pieces from
@JoshMcloughlin
,
@ImogenWK
,
@KevinGardner520
and
@josiahgogarty
.
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🟢🟢 Wrote about
@charli_xcx
, the weird pop queen of the moment, and her prime Kanye-level ability to marshal all kinds of collaborators to her vision 🟢🟢
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Avant-garde composer John Cage (the guy who did 4’33”) once won the jackpot on an Italian game show. His specialist subject? Mushrooms 🤯
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Did this in July about poll-obsessing — thought it might be worth a re-up given the circumstances
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@afneil
I'm working on the alumni magazine for the City University journalism course and we'd love to talk to you for it. Is there a good point of contact to discuss further?
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Pondered the meaning of Keir’s opening ceremony cagoule
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Massive Sopranos spoiler on page 97 of Caledonian Road. Andrew O’Hagan you did me dirty
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In 30 years literary essays are going to use social distancing as a really clunky metaphor for the societal effects of the internet and it's going to be really really awful
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Great piece by
@jackarking
about Letterboxd, the third-best social network (after LinkedIn and Strava)
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Biden as a bong-hitting Deadhead sure brings a new meaning to 'Sleepy Joe'
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Glenn O'Brien on statues from 2001 – specifically, that every human likeness in American public space should be replaced w abstract expressionist murals. Would be pretty great tbf.
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Did something on Sam Mendes’s four (!) separate Beatles biopics, and why it makes much more sense to view the band as a whole than as individuals
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5 albums // 5 homies
Last 5 I listened to:
Mas Amable – DJ Python
It's Album Time – Todd Terje
Song For Our Daughter – Laura Marling
Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
GANG – Headie One/Fred again..
I nominate:
@adamgoott
@aagroes
@Jade_anya_
@LSPENCERELLIOTT
@robyn_schaffer
5 albums
5 homies
Last 5 I listened to:
The Strokes - The New Abnormal
The Weeknd - After Hours
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love!
Grimes - Art Angels
I nominate:
@jameskrishacker
@josiahgogarty
@kjenkinsjourno
@annabelnugent
@kthodgson_h
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After conquering the rap game, our hero turns his sights to the greatest prize of them all: branding consultancy
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