Happy New Year; it’s been seven months since former Zambian President Edgar Lungu died and he’s still not buried.

my top reads of 2025 (**- 2026 arcs)

It's Christmas Eve, which means it's been six months and a couple of days since former Zambian President Edgar Lungu died and no, he's still not been buried.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

New ep of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com - The incredible John Lloyd (the man behind Blackadder, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, QI, etc) joins @georginagodwin.bsky.social - discussing "The Meaning of Liff" and it's 42nd Anniversary! monocle.com/radio/shows/...

I have work to do but it's Christmas so I'll just lie here

1-1? I'll take it lol #AFCON2025

*manifesting that Kimmel cusses out Trump and Starmer on British TV on Christmas Day 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾*

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

BREAKING: Gaza has averted the spread of famine but the situation remains critical, experts say.

How do I tell the family that I have no desire to watch a film about a Ping Pong player starring a actor who is pissed he doesn't have an Oscar yet?

Do... do they think Pres. Kennedy is still alive... or...?

New episode of #MeetTheWriters on Monocle.com - Delighted to have THEE Michael Palin in studio with @georginagodwin.bsky.social sharing stories of his career - from #MontyPython to #PalininVenezuela! monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Colleen Ballinger and her flipping ukelele 😭

Our Hay Festival Book of the Year 2025 is... A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland. A tender and resonant love story, the novel was one of the most talked about books at Hay Festival 2025. Dive in! www.hayfestival.org/book-of-the-...

New episode of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com - @georginagodwin.bsky.social meets the 2025 @thebookerprizes.com winner David Szalay at #Charleston Literary Festival! They discuss his upbringing, winning the prize and the reaction to 'Flesh'(@jonathancape.bsky.social) monocle.com/radio/shows/...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer

And this ends the most chaotic (kidding!) time of the year… Thanks to @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @readingjuniper.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk for the invites to preview some of the new titles for 2026 🙇🏾‍♀️📚

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New Episode of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com - Kiran Desai returns with "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" (via Hamish Hamilton/ @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) - She discusses with @georginagodwin.bsky.social on the themes and publishing a novel after two decades monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Yesterday's midday programme "The Briefing" on monocle.com had @franceskalbs.bsky.social, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (unhcr.org) monocle.com/radio/shows/...

The Puerto Rican superstar had never won any of the major prizes — album, song or record of the year — until last night. Other winners included Karol G and Alejandro Sanz. n.pr/3JYWhTo

I’m still very much on the “Emerald Fennell needs to diversify her friendship groups and stop having yes men in her life telling her another Wuthering Heights adaptation is the greatest thing ever” camp. ‬

This week's guest on #MeetTheWriters is the winner of this year's @bailliegifford.bsky.social Prize for Non-Fiction: Helen Garner. She speaks to @georginagodwin.bsky.social on "How to End a Story" - the first diary to win the prize (via @wnbooks.bsky.social) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The name is Mamdani. M A M D A N I. 🎉

Friend of Monocle Richard Lloyd Parry (@dicklp.bsky.social) is this week’s guest on #MeetTheWriters with @georginagodwin.bsky.social on monocle.com podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

the most insane thing I've read today, and I write podcast scripts (albeit not well.)

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Latest episode of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com - Juhea Kim speaks to @georginagodwin.bsky.social of her bridge between ballet and writing when in the process of "City of Night Birds" - A recent #ReesesBookClub pick (published via @oneworldbooks.bsky.social) 🩰 monocle.com/radio/shows/...

The multifacted force that is #PriyankaMattoo is this week’s guest on #MeetTheWriters, discussing her latest release “Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones” (via @aaknopf.bsky.social) on monocle.com 🙂 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

ICYMI: The journalist and biographer Michael Wolff (@michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social) is the latest guest on #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com monocle.com/affairs/poli...

New episode of #MeetTheWriters on Monocle.com The journalist, @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social, author of the 'Fire and Fury' series, joined @georginagodwin.bsky.social in the studio to discuss #Trump and his resurgence to The White House - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

ICYMI on this week's #MonocleOnCulture on monocle.com - Rob Bound is joined by British installation artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien the studio to discuss his career, influences and his new show at @deyoungmuseum.bsky.social :)) monocle.com/radio/shows/...

New EP of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com - The former First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid has written her debut fiction novel - it's a whodunnit!! 😲 She joins @georginagodwin.bsky.social in the studio to share all about it and the unexpected journey to First Lady! monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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ECL to be buried in SA in a private ceremony… HH apparently is to address the nation AGAIN. 🥹

Following the broadcast of FDX, last night HH has officially declared the mourning period in Zambia over to allow the country back to normalcy. (ask me if this is over, I don't think it is 😭)

New Episode of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com - it's a @womensprize.bsky.social special, as @georginagodwin.bsky.social speaks to the 2025 Fiction and Non-Fiction winners: Yael van Der Wouden and Rachel Clarke - monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Not the gworls fighting in real time????

The man remains truly excellent and this is going to be amazing www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was one of the African writers I read from my family’s bookshelf, such a loss to the literary world.

New Episode of #MeetTheWriters on monocle.com : Broadcaster and journalist @jeremyvine.bsky.social joins @georginagodwin.bsky.social to discuss his debut crime fiction novel "Murder on Line One" monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Mixed feelings on Sesame Street finding another home with @netflix.com - the show debuted on @pbs.org as a show for all, regardless of social mobility. Going to a subscription based model seems regressive. Will the show look for another public broadcaster if the unthinkable happens? (PBS shut off)

This is the one comic book character that could've been a perfect focus for children's cinema. I never feel excited for Superman in cinema, they always seem just... childish? Perfect for children's cinema!

On #MeetTheWriters this week on Monocle.com - @georginagodwin.bsky.social meets @ahmedalnaouq.bsky.social, the co- founder of #WeAreNotNumbers - the network that connects Palestinian writers to share their stories to the world. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

The world needs more emo supervillains. And Bob. #Thunderbolts

Michael Gonzales, the ambassador to Zambia, announced at an emotional press conference that the U.S. would cut $50 million in aid due to theft of medications.

Monocle has written/broadcast/thought a lot about soft power, a concept coined by the late Joseph Nye. He filed something for Monocle's upcoming June issue a few weeks ago, it's free to read here: monocle.com/affairs/jose...