Rotten news about Todd Snider. Was one of the first live guests we had come and play at Monocle Radio, played three songs in our cafeteria, and was just an absolute delight. Wretchedly under-valued, but one of the greatest American songwriters of our age. Vale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8eR...

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. The shifting geographic and strategic environments of the Arctic, with photographer Sebastian Copeland and Iro Särkkä of @fiia.fi, plus @anitariotta.bsky.social meets @sondergaard.bsky.social and Jessica Larsen from @diis.dk. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Your weekly reflection on what we've learned, for Monocle Radio. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and @ashbhardwaj.bsky.social on Russia's reluctant foreign legion, the latest Epstein-related developments and the day's other stuff, and a report from the Tourise tourism summit in Riyadh. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio looks at why Donald Trump has opened a trans-Atlantic front in his war on the media. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

My confident prediction remains: when it all comes out, and it will, it's all going to be so much more tacky and stupid than we can currently imagine.

Quite looking forward to seeing which of his circle will be first to try the "If only there had been some way of knowing what he was really like, but alas" manoeuvre.

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @olgatokariuk.bsky.social and @seankemp.bsky.social on the resignations of two Ukrainian ministers and the day's other stuff, and our On This Day historical series remembers the exploding whale of Florence, Oregon. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Yossi Mekelberg of @chmenap.bsky.social and Julie Norman of @ucl.ac.uk on the possible futures of Gaza and the day's other stuff, plus @rosegeorge.bsky.social on her fine new book "Every Last Fish". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Happy 50th anniversary to the dropping of Australia's greatest diss track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZGE...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @erinmbohalloran.bsky.social and Sir William Patey on President Ahmed al-Sharaa's White House visit and the day's other stuff, and @vnbateman.bsky.social introduces her new book "Economica" to @anitariotta.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

I note that the Australian Football League brains trust have ticked off another item on their to-do list of "Things Absolutely Nobody Wanted". www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2025...

Your weekly round-up of What We Learned for Monocle Radio. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. Attempting to get to the bottom of the global Gen Z protests, with Imane Zoubai, @gunarajluitel.bsky.social, Sally Gimson of @indexoncensorship.org and @jamesrball.com. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Genuinely makes me think less of Philadelphia that there isn't an annual parade.

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @mlorimer.bsky.social and Andrew Thompson on the imminent - or not - US invasion of Venezuela, and our report from the World Travel Market in London. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

People are dying to get in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Writers. Annual deadline to register your year's work with ALCS is November 30. If you haven't already registered with them, please, please do. It is literal free money, and the necessary admin is almost certainly the best-paid hour's work you'll do all year. www.alcs.co.uk

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio, trying to figure out why Nigeria is Donald Trump's 51st state du jour. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @tessaszy.bsky.social and Ben Kelly of @newsweek.com on the day's stuff, and @joanamoser.bsky.social meets Aziza Akrami, Afghan Youth Representative to the UN. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Now that poppy rage season is in full swing, re-post of Foreign Desk explainer from a few years back which solves the whole thing, you're welcome. omny.fm/shows/monocl...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Includes our obituary for Dick Cheney, discussion of his life and legacy and the day's other stuff with @terrystiastny.bsky.social and Robin Brant, and @claireyorke.bsky.social on her new book on the value of empathy in politics. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

He's wrong about Led Zeppelin, but @radiofreetom.bsky.social is entirely correct about the descent of the Republic's discourse into puerile inanity.

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @daniellapeled.bsky.social and @jmacrodgers.bsky.social on the day's stories, plus Dr Nicholas Wright on his fascinating new book "Warhead", about what conflict does to our brains. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio looks at Argentina, and whether whatever President Javier Milei thinks he's doing might actually be working. With @verambergen.bsky.social, @eseman.bsky.social and Paula Diosquez-Rice. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

". . . he also fed himself from the string of onions he was wearing, and whiled away the nights with the tiny accordion he carried."

I see that Microsoft's development team have made another update to Outlook.

Do we all get bumped up a notch in the order of succession?

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio ponders how possible Trump 2028 really is. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @lynneodonnell.bsky.social and Michael Binyon on Anthony Albanese's Joy Division t-shirt and the day's actually important stories, and our On This Day historical series recalls Black Tuesday: the 1929 Wall Street Crash. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Genuinely struggle to think of a single rule change in the last however many decades which has made Australian football an actually more enjoyable spectacle. Don't think I see an exception here. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @patcohen.bsky.social and Simon Brooke on Trump's Asia visit and the day's other stuff, and Tom Webb meets Elizabeth Lo as she releases her new documentary "Mistress Dispeller". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Vainglorious poseur infamous for leading gullible supplicants on bewildering journey, to play Wizard of Oz, etc. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Some thoughts for Monocle on whether advances in AI might prompt some sort of renaissance for manual labour. monocle.com/business/tec...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Colonel Mark Cancian of @csis.org on the US build-up off Venezuela, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and Justin Quirk on that and the day's other stuff, and former Chief Whip Simon Hart on his memoir/diary "Ungovernable". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids were taken off the market because they pulled people's hair.

Weekday replug for latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. The at 80 UN, with former UN force commander Major General Patrick Cammaert, Mona Ali Khalil of @passblue.bsky.social, U Thant's biographer and grandson @thantmyintu.bsky.social and. . . John Bolton. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Weary, twice-yearly insistence that no single reform would do more to enhance the quality of life in these islands than the adoption of permanent GMT+2.

And here's your weekly wrap-up of what we've learned. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. The UN at 80, with U Thant's biographer and grandson @thantmyintu.bsky.social, Mona Ali Khalil of @passblue.bsky.social, former UN force commander Major General Patrick Cammaert, and John actual Bolton. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Not only am I in the 16%, I'm in whichever fraction of the 16% who would favour a brutally enforced ban on any and all expressions of corporate whimsy.

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @isabelh.bsky.social and Evdoxia Lymperi on the day's stuff, plus a letter from Vienna from @alexei-korolyov.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Book alert klaxon. Hugely enjoying "The Revolutionists" by @jasonburke2.bsky.social. Pairs well with a soundtrack of @lukehaines.bsky.social's "Baader Meinhof" album. www.penguin.co.uk/books/440432...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio, contemplating Japan's new prime minister, and what she may wish to do with the office. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @elisabethbraw.bsky.social and Stephen Dalziel on the day's stuff, and more besides. monocle.com/radio/shows/...