Andrew Mueller
@andrewmueller.bsky.social
Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
Everybody, behold. The spectacular debut print edition of Australian publication @thestoryau.bsky.social, edited - like the fabulous Smith Journal of yore - by @chrisharrigan.bsky.social. Come for the picture of me in Baghdad rubble in 2003, stay for everything else.
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Everybody, behold. The spectacular debut print edition of Australian publication @thestoryau.bsky.social, edited - like the fabulous Smith Journal of yore - by @chrisharrigan.bsky.social. Come for the picture of me in Baghdad rubble in 2003, stay for everything else.
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @burcuozcelik.bsky.social and @vinnymcav.bsky.social on the degree to which the Ukraine peace deal is the Kremlin's wish list and the day's other stuff, plus @juliaioffe.bsky.social on her excellent new book "Motherland". monocle.com/radio/shows/...
The US claims progress on Ukraine talks, the G20 wraps up and Israel targets Hezbollah - Monocle
US and Ukrainian delegations meet in Geneva to talk peace; Israel targets Hezbollah’s chief of staff; the G20 wraps up;...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @burcuozcelik.bsky.social and @vinnymcav.bsky.social on the degree to which the Ukraine peace deal is the Kremlin's wish list and the day's other stuff, plus @juliaioffe.bsky.social on her excellent new book "Motherland". monocle.com/radio/shows/...
A rigorous and sensible five-point plan which, if swiftly enacted, might make the rest of this series competitive, not that this is something I want.
Five ways for England to claw something back;
Deport Zac Crawley
Deport The Barmy Army
Play Test Cricket
Don't allow people called Olly near cricket bats. (The Ollying of English test cricket has had a lasting negative effect, not least on me).
Grow mustaches pronto.
Deport Zac Crawley
Deport The Barmy Army
Play Test Cricket
Don't allow people called Olly near cricket bats. (The Ollying of English test cricket has had a lasting negative effect, not least on me).
Grow mustaches pronto.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A rigorous and sensible five-point plan which, if swiftly enacted, might make the rest of this series competitive, not that this is something I want.
Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. This was a fun one to do: assessing the difference between the reality of politics and diplomacy, and the fictions and satires. With @alexvont.bsky.social, John Everard and @quantick.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Stranger than fiction? - Monocle
Many politicians and diplomats serve during incidents that feel stranger than fiction. Veep writer David Quantick and former UK ambassador John...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. This was a fun one to do: assessing the difference between the reality of politics and diplomacy, and the fictions and satires. With @alexvont.bsky.social, John Everard and @quantick.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
It would be even funnier if, one glorious day, their incessant, inane, witless, self-involved mooing was silenced by a grand piano falling out of an overflying cargo aircraft, but it's something.
The Barmy Army spending longer in a plane to watch the first test than they did actually watching the first test will never not be funny
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It would be even funnier if, one glorious day, their incessant, inane, witless, self-involved mooing was silenced by a grand piano falling out of an overflying cargo aircraft, but it's something.
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Posting this partially as service to fellow writers, partly to motivate myself to get it done today. November 30 is deadline to log your year's work at @alcs.co.uk, in return for which you *will* get free money, possibly quite startling quantities of it. If you haven't signed up, do. www.alcs.co.uk
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November 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Posting this partially as service to fellow writers, partly to motivate myself to get it done today. November 30 is deadline to log your year's work at @alcs.co.uk, in return for which you *will* get free money, possibly quite startling quantities of it. If you haven't signed up, do. www.alcs.co.uk
Your weekly wrap-up of what we learned, for Monocle Radio. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
What We Learned: JD Vance in prison, Maduro karaoke and a wild world record - Monocle
Andrew Mueller recaps the week’s oddest stories. This week, Michigan man JD Vance (not that one) goes to prison, Venezuelan...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Your weekly wrap-up of what we learned, for Monocle Radio. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @charleshecker.bsky.social and Carole Walker on the US-Russia "peace plan" for Ukraine, and the day's other stuff, plus @pburtsoff.bsky.social reports from Hanaholmen. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Zelensky’s meeting with top US army delegation in Kyiv - Monocle
Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to meet with a US army delegation in Kyiv after American and Russian officials draft a plan...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @charleshecker.bsky.social and Carole Walker on the US-Russia "peace plan" for Ukraine, and the day's other stuff, plus @pburtsoff.bsky.social reports from Hanaholmen. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio considers the Energoatom corruption scandal in Ukraine, and the possible ramifications and remedies. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Explainer 494: The bright side of Ukraine’s corruption scandal - Monocle
It has been a tough week for Zelensky’s government. But is there a bright side to the corruption scandal gripping...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio considers the Energoatom corruption scandal in Ukraine, and the possible ramifications and remedies. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Reposted by Andrew Mueller
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
All of that and book reviews from
@ohhiralphjones.bsky.social, @jamesrobins.bsky.social,
@andrewmueller.bsky.social and @heliconiuscydno.bsky.social, plus poetry, a cryptic crossword and brainteaser!
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@ohhiralphjones.bsky.social, @jamesrobins.bsky.social,
@andrewmueller.bsky.social and @heliconiuscydno.bsky.social, plus poetry, a cryptic crossword and brainteaser!
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Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @philtinline.bsky.social and Tira Shubart on the alleged new Ukraine peace plan and the day's other stuff, plus @leaypi.bsky.social on her tremendous new book "Indignity". monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Are the US and Russia secretly working on a peace plan without Ukraine? - Monocle
Reports emerge that the Trump administration has been secretly co-ordinating with Moscow on a new plan to end the war...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @philtinline.bsky.social and Tira Shubart on the alleged new Ukraine peace plan and the day's other stuff, plus @leaypi.bsky.social on her tremendous new book "Indignity". monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @patcohen.bsky.social and Alexander Görlach on Trump's apparent Epstein u-turn and the day's other stuff, plus some words for the late, great Todd Snider, and an excerpt from the session he recorded for us in 2012. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Trump’s U-turn on the Epstein files: Does this help the Maga camp or make things worse? - Monocle
Trump has urged his fellow Republicans to vote for the release of the files on the basis that “we have...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @patcohen.bsky.social and Alexander Görlach on Trump's apparent Epstein u-turn and the day's other stuff, plus some words for the late, great Todd Snider, and an excerpt from the session he recorded for us in 2012. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Rotten news about Todd Snider. Was one of the first live guests we had come and play at Monocle Radio, played three songs in our cafeteria, and was just an absolute delight. Wretchedly under-valued, but one of the greatest American songwriters of our age. Vale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8eR...
Play a Train Song
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November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Rotten news about Todd Snider. Was one of the first live guests we had come and play at Monocle Radio, played three songs in our cafeteria, and was just an absolute delight. Wretchedly under-valued, but one of the greatest American songwriters of our age. Vale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8eR...
Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. The shifting geographic and strategic environments of the Arctic, with photographer Sebastian Copeland and Iro Särkkä of @fiia.fi, plus @anitariotta.bsky.social meets @sondergaard.bsky.social and Jessica Larsen from @diis.dk. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
How the Arctic is hotting up - Monocle
As the ice recedes, geopolitical tensions are emerging among arctic nations – not to mention China and the US. What...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. The shifting geographic and strategic environments of the Arctic, with photographer Sebastian Copeland and Iro Särkkä of @fiia.fi, plus @anitariotta.bsky.social meets @sondergaard.bsky.social and Jessica Larsen from @diis.dk. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Your weekly reflection on what we've learned, for Monocle Radio. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
What We Learned: A cheating scandal, Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s emails - Monocle
Andrew Mueller unpacks what we learned from this week’s news, including a pub quiz team caught cheating, Melania Trump’s ‘Patriot...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Your weekly reflection on what we've learned, for Monocle Radio. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and @ashbhardwaj.bsky.social on Russia's reluctant foreign legion, the latest Epstein-related developments and the day's other stuff, and a report from the Tourise tourism summit in Riyadh. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Why is Russia targeting Africans to fight its war in Ukraine? - Monocle
Kenya says more than 200 of its nationals have joined Russian forces. We ask why Russia has its eyes on...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and @ashbhardwaj.bsky.social on Russia's reluctant foreign legion, the latest Epstein-related developments and the day's other stuff, and a report from the Tourise tourism summit in Riyadh. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio looks at why Donald Trump has opened a trans-Atlantic front in his war on the media. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Explainer 493: Trump vs the BBC - Monocle
The BBC is the latest media outlet to find itself at the mercy of Trump’s legal team. Does this spell...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio looks at why Donald Trump has opened a trans-Atlantic front in his war on the media. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
My confident prediction remains: when it all comes out, and it will, it's all going to be so much more tacky and stupid than we can currently imagine.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My confident prediction remains: when it all comes out, and it will, it's all going to be so much more tacky and stupid than we can currently imagine.
Quite looking forward to seeing which of his circle will be first to try the "If only there had been some way of knowing what he was really like, but alas" manoeuvre.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Quite looking forward to seeing which of his circle will be first to try the "If only there had been some way of knowing what he was really like, but alas" manoeuvre.
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @olgatokariuk.bsky.social and @seankemp.bsky.social on the resignations of two Ukrainian ministers and the day's other stuff, and our On This Day historical series remembers the exploding whale of Florence, Oregon. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Zelensky calls for the resignation of two ministers amid a growing energy-sector corruption investigation - Monocle
What next for Volodymyr Zelensky as Ukraine is shaken by one of the biggest wartime corruption scandals since Russia’s invasion...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @olgatokariuk.bsky.social and @seankemp.bsky.social on the resignations of two Ukrainian ministers and the day's other stuff, and our On This Day historical series remembers the exploding whale of Florence, Oregon. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
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/...
Solving conflict in the Middle East: How to break the deadlock - Monocle
A Gaza ceasefire might be in place but what are the actual long-term solutions to conflict in the Middle East?...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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/...
Happy 50th anniversary to the dropping of Australia's greatest diss track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZGE...
ABC News: Gough Whitlam (1975)
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November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Happy 50th anniversary to the dropping of Australia's greatest diss track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZGE...