Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio takes a look at Lebanon, with @nickpw.bsky.social of @cnn.com, Hanin Ghaddar of @washinstitute.bsky.social and Nada Maucourant Atallah at The National. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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

Scorching hot daylight saving take: it would be a dramatic and instant improvement to life in these islands if tonight the clocks were put forward two hours, and left there permanently.

His password was "FBI", wasn't it. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/vide...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @mlorimer.bsky.social and @vinnymcav.bsky.social on Trump's two-front war with Iran and NATO and the day's other stories, plus @paulosbourne.bsky.social reports on the ABC strike in Australia. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Well this rather scuppers my plan to sue all of you for not buying my books. www.reuters.com/world/judge-...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio looks at why two Russians are in the dock in Luanda. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Sir William Patey and Nina Dos Santos on whether Iraq can keep out of the crossfire and the day's other stories, and our On This Day historical series recalls MLK's speech in Montgomery in 1965. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Stilted mannequin incapable of convincingly spontaneous human communication accompanies fill in the rest yourselves, I've a show to write.

Here's the session that the late, great Chip Taylor played at Monocle in 2015. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @isabelh.bsky.social and @nadinebh.bsky.social on the day’s big stories, and a farewell to the late Chip Taylor, one of the very greatest American songwriters. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

"We are not spies. We are connoisseurs of Portuguese imperial architecture. We came to Angola simply to see the São Miguel de Luanda Fortress, which. . . *glances at Wikipedia on phone*. . . was built in the 16th century, during the government of Paulo Dias de Novais." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Julie Norman of @ucl.ac.uk and Yossi Mekelberg of @chmenap.bsky.social on Iran and the day's other stories, and another dispatch from the MIPIM urbanism fair in Cannes. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

We're about another week away from "Heg-who? Never met him. Or if I did, I never liked him. Kind of a deadbeat. Bad ratings. Terrible pocket squares, did you notice those? I invented pocket squares. There are too many windmills."

It's the most marvellous time of the year, if you're any sort of writer: @alcs.co.uk royalty distribution day. If you haven't signed up already, please do so right now. (And thank you, ALCS.)

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. Global ramifications of the war in Iran, with Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko, former US NATO ambassador Kurt Volker, @isabelh.bsky.social and @markhleonard.bsky.social of @ecfr.eu. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Ceaselessly amazed/pleased by the half-life this thing has enjoyed (we gave it away with an issue of Melody Maker in like 1995 or something).

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Alexander Görlach and @tessaszy.bsky.social on the EU summit most participants will be hoping is Viktor Orban's leaving do, and the day's other stuff, plus my dispatch from a recentish visit to Goulburn, NSW. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

If you have never had a go at the vast, sprawling catalogue of Ed Kuepper, this is a pretty good way in.

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio: why Donald Trump is eyeing up Cuba before he has even finished his Iran. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Tira Shubart and @ashbhardwaj.bsky.social on the wider effects of the Iran war and the day's other stories, and a dispatch from our team at the recently concluded MIPIM urbanism fair in Cannes. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Goddamnit all to hell, I was just thinking about getting into that.

Applies at least as much to journalism, and we have the bonus that the writing is often the fun part (this is ideally the case for readers and listeners as well).

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @alexvont.bsky.social and @phmarliere.bsky.social on Trump’s isolation and the day’s other stories, and @pburtsoff.bsky.social on Finland’s microsatellite boom. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

He must be pretty upset with the idiot who hired the guy to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Centre.

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @rainbowmurray.bsky.social and @anandmenon.bsky.social on Mark Carney's UK visit and the day's other stuff, plus @rcl25th.bsky.social on her new book on the 25th Amendment and US nuclear command and control. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

"Our great friends in Ruritania, Freedonia, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, Borduria AND Syldavia, Legoland, they're all sending ships. . ."

A contemplation of the overlap between politics and hip hop, for Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/bale...

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. Gulf War 3, Week 2, with John Bolton, Nate Swanson of @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social, Esther Solomon of @haaretzcom.bsky.social, @yjtorbati.bsky.social of @nytimes.com and David Kilcullen. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

"This whole thing would be much easier to manage if the other side would be a little more co-operative. Honestly, it's like they're not even trying to help."

"A badger? Sure. A hedgehog? Okay, why not. But an otter? NEVER."

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Carole Walker and @charleshecker.bsky.social on Hormuz, Iran's absentee Supreme Leader and the day's other stories, and a letter from Oaxaca. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Special Foreign Desk bonus episode on Monocle Radio. Monocle's editorial director Tyler Brûlé speaks to Canadian prime minister Mark Carney in Tokyo. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer on Monocle Radio introduces Nepal's new prime minister, and considers the reasons for electing a 35-year-old rapper. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Never thought anything could test my loyalty to Geelong Football Club, until. . . www.geelongcats.com.au/news/1968555

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @daniellapeled.bsky.social and @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social on the increasing global ripples of the war in the Persian Gulf and the day's other stories, and our On This Day historical series recalls Britain's first daily paper. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

No way to talk about Clement Attlee.

BET LYNCH MOB www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"They should totally just sail what is essentially an enormous floating bomb through a narrows laced with mines which is also a shooting gallery for drones and ballistic missiles, I can't imagine what could possibly go wrong."

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @tinafordhamgeopol.bsky.social and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera on the day's developments, plus @johnyorkestory.bsky.social, author of "Into The Woods", on his new book "Trip To The Moon". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

"The wallet inspector showed me his badge," part umpty-million in an apparently ceaseless series.

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and Simon Brooke on the G7 oil meeting, Iran's new Supreme Leader and the day's other stories, plus @danielrachel.bsky.social on his new book "This Ain't Rock'n'Roll" - a history of rock's fascination with fascism. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

"Why are these yellow-bellied, jelly-hearted, lily-livered cowards unwilling to sail a large, slow, unarmoured target filled to the gunwales with flammable cargo through an active war zone."

Latest Briefing on Monocle Radio. Laura James of Oxford Analytica on Iran's new Supreme Leader, Tyler Brûlé meets Canadian PM Mark Carney, @laurakramer.bsky.social on Switzerland's latest referendums/referenda, and more. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

ARE YOU AN AYATOLLAH.

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. A look at a week of war with Iran, with Monocle's Gulf correspondent Inzamam Rashid, @ianbremmer.com, Anshel Pfeffer, Nazila Fathi and Dina Esfandiary. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Everybody. Tune in to a special live edition of The Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio at midday London time. (You can of course listen later wherever fine podcast are downloaded, etc.) monocle.com/radio/

My new favourite AFL player will be the one who, if invited to choose after-goal music, chooses nothing, and cedes his time to the crowd. #AFLGiantsHawks

Not that there wouldn't be a good week for such a reform, but this would be a really good week to change all social media platform prompts to "Are you sure about this?" or "Do you really have even the faintest, wispiest clue what you're talking about?"