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Balkans Correspondent 📹 BBC News, 🖋️ Monocle Presenter 🎙 Monocle Radio Moderator ⚖ at large
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Found myself caught in some kind of KLF video shoot today, in Ptuj, Slovenia. These creatures are justified and ancient for sure.

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Wondered if @edwyncollins.bsky.social had made it over to Bluesky. Chuffed to see that he has. No shilly-shallying in my feed from now on.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Got my Serbia chat on with @andrewmueller.bsky.social for Monocle Radio's Foreign Desk. Listen in for the latest on protests, prime ministerial defenestration and presidential pontification.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

World is in chaos. Reliable info is at a premium. What’s going on at #BBCWorldService? Govt gave WS extra £32.6m 2025-26, yet BBC cutting 130 more WS jobs to save £6m.Why? #TimDavie says he wants to double investment in WS+ wants govt to pay for it. So why mutilate WS more before a govt offer? 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

After the latest round of Balkan Bike Bureau TV lives, I had a natter about Kosovo's parliamentary elections - the who, why and what next - on Monocle Radio's The Briefing. Get your shell-likes round this: monocle.com/radio/shows/...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The Balkans Bike Bureau isn't as elegant as @annaholligan.bsky.social's. But it gets the job done. Going live this morning for BBC News Channel on Kosovo's elections.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Good to hear. Now provide proper funding and put an end to a two decade-long doom cycle of cuts, redundancies and general morale battering.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Unreal. Just filed a piece for BBC World Service on a significant sausage swindle in Croatia. Police are grilling Zupanja's ex-mayor; they suspect he used public money to buy 1.5 tonnes of kulen over 3 years. A rare, literal case of pork barrel politics. www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/hrvatska-k...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Look, this US egg robbery yarn is no yolk. If you're going to do it, you have to get the puns in. Police seeking to take the perpetrators into custardy, etc. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Fab time presenting Monocle Radio's The Globalist. @ruthmichaelson.com on Syria, @ronanlee.bsky.social on Myanmar, @willhodgkinson.bsky.social on Marianne Faithfull and Grammy noms, @andrewmueller.bsky.social's week, plus Sundance, Norway news and the day's papers. Phew! monocle.com/radio/shows/...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Getting ready to go live with Monocle Radio's The Globalist. Elliot at the controls. Tune in for news from Syria and Myanmar, plus the Sundance film festival, news from Norway and the week in music. And of course what @andrewmueller.bsky.social learned. Tune in!

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This from last night... More from Serbia in this lunchtime's Briefing on Monocle Radio.

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I've worked with Sandra Veić Sukreski on lots of stories in Croatia. From refugees to adoption of the Euro and the national football team's successes. This time she's the story - talking about her literature-themed cookbook on Monocle Radio's The Menu. Listen here: monocle.com/radio/shows/...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Just cancelled my WeTransfer subscription after 7 years. They wanted to virtually double the monthly charge (€12 to €23). New €8 "Starter" level has advertising + upload limits but no custom url. Not much use - and neither was their support. Any suggestions for alternatives?

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

For those in need of a laugh today.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment