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Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
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At Globsec again for Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk with producer @anitariotta.bsky.social. Come and say hello if you're here, etc.

Prague, of which it may be said that there are less attractive cities to look at.

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @lynneodonnell.bsky.social and Quentin Peel on the day's stuff, plus Kate Mossman on her tremendous new book "Men Of A Certain Age": accounts of meetings with venerable rock stars. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @terrystiastny.bsky.social and Yossi Mekelberg on the day's stuff, and Oliver Moody introduces his fine new book "Baltic: The Future Of Europe". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

The only people who enjoyed that game will be physicists curious to see what happens when a resistible force meets a moveable object. #AFLRoosEagles

Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio. A dispatch from the Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa, with Ukrainian MPs Oleksiy Goncharenko and Kira Rudik, and Georgian Legion commander Mamuka Mamulashvili. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Briefing on Monocle Radio. @leilama.bsky.social on Israel arming Hamas's rivals, @feap.bsky.social on the Brazilian papers, plus business news, J-Pop, and the Ukrainian NGO chronicling Russian war crimes. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

This thread just got reposted onto the timeline, and is heartily recommended. It will never get old.

I feel like a falling-out between Earth's most powerful individual and Earth's richest should be a lot less stupid than this.

He wants them up before the beak. Is this thing working. www.impartialreporter.com/news/2521501...

"Accidentally." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

On behalf of that admittedly niche cohort who compose and record a whimsical weekly news monologue on Thursday mornings for Friday broadcast, I would like to register my/our vexation that Trump and Musk didn't commence their hair-pulling and shin-kicking 24 hours ago. Would have written itself.

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. HJ Mai in DC on Merz at the White House, @isabelh.bsky.social and Nik Gowing on the day's other stuff, plus my letter from Odesa. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

"I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it."

Donald Trump arrives for his meeting with the German chancellor.

I have had some thoughts on the progress of the present AFL season at roughly its halfway point, for GQ Australia. www.gq.com.au/gq-sports/af...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio wonders whether the latest Iran nuclear talks are going anywhere. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

And here is the panel I hosted on the Global South's attitudes to the conflict, with former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, and Hugo Acha of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ2s...

A dispatch for Monocle from the recent Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa. monocle.com/affairs/view...

If I ran an airline, I would simply put passengers and their luggage on the same goddamn plane.

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio, looking at the evolving nature of threats to journalists around the world. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer on Monocle Radio contemplates India's decades-old Maoist insurgency. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Odesa.

Spoke to Moldova's foreign minister/deputy prime minister Mihail Popşoi in Chisinau for Monocle Radio. From about 11 minutes in here: monocle.com/radio/shows/...

In Chișinău. If Moldova's EU accession stalls, it won't be for want of flag size.

Atlantic crossings were historically dull affairs. But not on Captain Edward Smith's watch. Ramming RMS Titanic into an iceberg transformed his ocean liner into etc etc etc etc. Absolutely spare us from people who actually want politics to be entertaining.

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio, examining Russia's curiously enduring appeal in portions of Eastern Europe. @laurakramer.bsky.social meets Iulian Fota in Bucharest, plus we hear from @paulaerizanu.bsky.social in Chisinau and Beata Balagova in Bratislava. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Briefing on Monocle Radio. @burcuozcelik.bsky.social on Iran talks, @pburtsoff.bsky.social on Germany's Lithuania deployment, @tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com on difficulties facing Hong Kong's independent media, and @feap.bsky.social on Brazil's bumper year in cinema. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @alexvont.bsky.social and Robin Brant on Ramaphosa's White House visit and the day's other stuff, plus Simon Bouvier in Abidjan and our On This Day feature recalls something which didn't happen. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer on Monocle Radio examines the post-election sundering of Australia's conservative coalition. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @tessaszy.bsky.social and @philtinline.bsky.social on the day's stuff, plus - because you knew we would - we send a correspondent to the Sauna Summit. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

This is going to be a recurring story: news outlets insisting on learning the hard way that trusting AI *at all* is going to cause way more problems than it solves. Confident prediction: someone will get sued into oblivion over an AI-conjured libel.

Everybody, buy this.

Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio. Why has the PKK hung it up, what does it mean for Kurds in Turkey and elsewhere, and so forth. With @hannahluci.bsky.social, @fgeerdink.bsky.social and Dilan Sirwan. monocle.com/radio/shows/...