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/...

"The High Seas Treaty is the best thing in ocean conservation news since the oceans needed conserving." Read @rosegeorge.bsky.social's new essay in Big Issue, her new book EVERY LAST FISH is in stores now. www.bigissue.com/life/food/mo...

I wrote today’s Guardian Long Read: an account of the awful sinking of the #ScandiesRose on the first day of 2020, with the loss of five men. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Guess I should have known when it asked me if I identified as a cisgender woman. No, love. Just a woman, that’s plenty enough.

Could someone tell me what the f*ck these abbreviations mean? Not the star signs. I understand those though not why they are considered part of a personality. This is from Breeze dating app btw.

This is horrific. I doubt they’d let me in either. Bye bye America for a while.

No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet. Dora thoroughly ignoring the new catnip toys that she has been delighting in, because I was trying to show my brother how much she loved them.

This is a great piece on why we are not seeing oiled birds off Grimsby. Nice to see follow-up after all the disaster writing. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nort...

I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment. Take a look at my wares and please repost. gailmyerscough.co.uk Thanks!

Glad the crews are safe. But not glad at what sea life is now suffering.

FWIW the vast majority of shipping accidents are caused by human error. My money is on an unattended bridge. Nothing much else makes sense with all the tech on offer. But eyes are as useful as tech.

Hello, I’m dining on my own. I’d like you to ask me several times if I’m on my own please, then seat me on the table nearest the toilets, then ostentatiously remove the second set of cutlery while asking me again if I’m on my own. Otherwise it just wouldn’t be right.

Belatedly, here is a review I wrote of a very good book about smell. www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...

Copy edit back from US copy editor. Who comments that “this author’s writing is steeped in UK idiom.” Hmm. I wonder why?

Someone should tell millennials in the outdoors that it’s OK to greet other human beings.

Americans, every day:

Season’s greetings to you.

Message from a fell running friend I am meant to be racing with today on the moors. “95% chance of rain & 50mph winds, do you still want to do it?” *considers state of head & heart* “Yes.”

On a par with me standing behind Peter Gabriel for a group photo at TED, and coming up with, “you’re ahead of me in the alphabet.”

Nice one #Co-operativeBank: an online banking system in which you can’t search online past 13 months. Totally antiquated. Bye bye Co-op after 30 years.

Having a 14-year-old French god-daughter is a constant revelation.

Sunday fact. In France, Timothée Chalamet is known amongst the young as Titi ChaCha. (Soft C for the best effect.)

Happy #WorldToiletDay! Billions of people have no toilet or an awful toilet, so consider yours and how lucky you are to have a clean and private and safe one and give it a metaphorical hug. Or an actual hug: I don’t mind. #hugyourtoiletday

If anyone fancies a career change, there’s a chief scorpion wrangler being sought on the Isle of Sheppey: Dockyard searching for 'chief scorpion wrangler' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wtf is a starter pack? Is there a starter pack to tell me what a starter pack is?

Oh okay then.

My gripe about the other place was not about being screamed at. I tried really hard to get people to yell at me but I always got off lightly. (Though I’ll always remember the man who said I have a paunch). It was the pitiful interaction. Less & less & less until there was nowt.

Musk's lost the Morris dancers. It's Over.

I’m on episode 6 of The Day of the Jackal. Not sure why: I don’t like any of the characters and think there has been serious miscasting all over the shop. Do I bother with the final episodes?

Dammit this is turning out to be as addictive as early Twitter. Nice people posting nice smart things. Damn you.

@guyshrubsole.bsky.social hello, we met briefly at your Farsley event. I’d like to send you a copy of my poo book, let me know how please.

Hello. It seems nice here.