Andrew Mueller

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A week of war in Iran and peace in Venezuela? - Monocle Iran’s war with the US and Israel continues to escalate as Venezuela appears to normalise relations with the Trump administration....

Will ask. In the meantime, you can find it towards the end of yesterday's Daily. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Live special: War in Iran - Monocle We head to Dubai, New York and Jerusalem for the latest developments as the war in Iran grips the Gulf....

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. A look at a week of war with Iran, with Monocle's Gulf correspondent Inzamam Rashid, @ianbremmer.com, Anshel Pfeffer, Nazila Fathi and Dina Esfandiary. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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Clapped in irons in the cargo hold at the very least.

Enjoy, but I stopped watching during the first quarter. Genuinely unendurable.

My new favourite AFL player will be the one who, if invited to choose after-goal music, chooses nothing, and cedes his time to the crowd. #AFLGiantsHawks

Not that there wouldn't be a good week for such a reform, but this would be a really good week to change all social media platform prompts to "Are you sure about this?" or "Do you really have even the faintest, wispiest clue what you're talking about?"

Granted that the general progress of the match is not improving my temper, but earnestly believe that people who sing along to "Sweet Caroline" at sporting events should be deprived of the vote, and possibly arrested. #AFLSunsCats

Russia loses allies but gains energy dependents as Iran war continues  - Monocle Russia and Ukraine are jockeying for position as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues. Russia could benefit from a rise...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @elisabethbraw.bsky.social and Stephen Dalziel on the Iran war's impact on Russia-Ukraine and other stories, and my case for taking the ferry in. . . Melbourne. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Thanks kindly. I think we calculated afterwards that it was something like 37 years since the first time I'd interviewed him. (In our defences, we both started very young, etc.)

Explainer 507: Pakistan-Afghanistan: What’s fuelling this week’s overlooked conflict? - Monocle While the world’s eyes are on Iran, tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have flared into open conflict. What is driving...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio takes a look at the war we'd be worrying about in any other week. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

US Senate votes on Iran war powers resolution as European opposition remains divided - Monocle We hear from Washington as the Senate votes on an Iran war powers resolution, while shades of the Iraq War...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. H.J. Mai with the latest from DC, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and @philtinline.bsky.social on the day's wider developments, and @guydelauney.bsky.social on Croatia's re-embrace of conscription. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

How will the US-Israeli war with Iran impact Ukraine? - Monocle We assess whether the US could lose interest in ending Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine with operations against Iran taking...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @latikambourke.com and Nik Gowing on the day’s developments and Inzamam Rashid with the latest from Dubai. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Was he once mugged by a windmill, has anyone looked into this.

YouTube video by Vincent Meininger Tommy Cooper - Cleaning up the attic

The real joy of the performance is the way the audience start laughing as soon as he says "Unfortunately. . . " Something curiously especially enjoyable about a punchline everyone sees coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-P...

Rembrandt's Vision of Zacharias in the Temple rediscovered after 65 years The painting, created by the Dutch master in 1633, had disappeared after being sold in 1961.

Posted as it reminds of the Tommy Cooper joke about finding a painting and a violin in the attic and getting them valued, and being told they were a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. "Unfortunately, Stradivarius was a terrible painter, and Rembrandt made rotten violins." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pretty much. Although, to persist with the analogy, possibly a daunting prospect at home.

Europe’s response to US and Israeli strikes on Iran - Monocle We assess Europe’s reaction to the Middle East conflict. Plus: how tensions between the US and Iran have been affecting...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @burcuozcelik.bsky.social and Quentin Peel on latest developments in the Middle East and the view from Europe, plus Nimrod Gorem of Mitvim in Tel Aviv, and Kenneth Rosen on his new book "Polar War". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

"This is like that time one of my equally expert and richly salaried colleagues reported encountering Catholicism in the Vatican."

"As somebody handsomely paid for my rarefied ability to assess relative risk, I'm astonished."

"I mean it's the Middle East. Whoever heard of anything geopolitical happening here?"

"And by golly if there's one thing I simply will not stand for, it's violations of all the norms of human morality and international law."

Supremacy usurped: Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead in US-Israeli strikes - Monocle Iran’s Supreme Leader has been killed in a US-Israeli airstrike. While some celebrate the end to his iron rule of...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei obituary for Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/supr...

Munich Security Conference special: Is Europe awake yet? - Monocle US senator Lisa Murkowski, Kosovo’s prime minister Albin Kurti and French minister delegate for European affairs Benjamin Haddad discuss whether...

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. Another @munsecconf.bsky.social special, with US senator Lisa Murkowski, Kosovo PM Albin Kurti, France's Europe minister Benjamin Haddad and former NATO spokesperson @oanalungescu.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

What We Learned: Trump’s State of the Union, Mumbai’s musical road and Bangkok’s undercover police  - Monocle Andrew Mueller unpacks what we learned from Trump’s State of the Union address, Mumbai’s first musical road and an unusual...

Your weekly wrap-up of what we learned for Monocle Radio (recorded pre-recent events). monocle.com/radio/shows/...

The US, Israel and Iran exchange violent strikes. But what’s the point of Operation Epic Fury?  - Monocle US-Israeli strikes targeting Iranian leadership and the latter’s retaliatory attacks have rocked the Middle East. But is there a method...

Some thoughts on today’s events for Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/us-a...

Not pictured: careening drunks on Lime bikes and phalanxes of marauding delivery riders on souped-up Mad Max-mobiles.

Home Office denies ‘absurd’ criticism over rule change that may leave dual nationals stranded MPs raise cases of honeymooners and other Britons caught out by new passport requirements as minister rejects calls for grace period

Also really good fun: holders of Indefinite Leave to Remain status having to walk bewildered airline staff through the Home Office website at check-in because said Home Office won't just put a goddamn stamp in our passports, as worked perfectly well for decades. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Explainer 506: How did Mexico’s drug cartels bring the country to a standstill? - Monocle How did the killing of “El Mencho”, head of CJNG drug cartel, lead to tourists being trapped in Puerto Vallarta?...

Latest Foreign Desk Explainer on Monocle Radio: a look at why Mexico has picked now to go after the CJNG. monocle.com/radio/shows/...