Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @latikambourke.com and Nik Gowing on the dayβs developments and Inzamam Rashid with the latest from Dubai. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
03.03.2026 19:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @latikambourke.com and Nik Gowing on the dayβs developments and Inzamam Rashid with the latest from Dubai. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
03.03.2026 19:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was he once mugged by a windmill, has anyone looked into this.
03.03.2026 17:43 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0The 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...
03.03.2026 12:36 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Posted 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...
03.03.2026 12:34 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0Pretty much. Although, to persist with the analogy, possibly a daunting prospect at home.
03.03.2026 11:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Latest 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/...
02.03.2026 20:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"This is like that time one of my equally expert and richly salaried colleagues reported encountering Catholicism in the Vatican."
02.03.2026 16:05 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"As somebody handsomely paid for my rarefied ability to assess relative risk, I'm astonished."
02.03.2026 15:47 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0"I mean it's the Middle East. Whoever heard of anything geopolitical happening here?"
02.03.2026 15:36 β π 24 π 3 π¬ 5 π 0"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."
01.03.2026 11:50 β π 116 π 20 π¬ 4 π 0Ayatollah Ali Khamenei obituary for Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/supr...
01.03.2026 11:24 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Latest 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/...
01.03.2026 07:45 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Your weekly wrap-up of what we learned for Monocle Radio (recorded pre-recent events). monocle.com/radio/shows/...
01.03.2026 07:41 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Some thoughts on todayβs events for Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/us-a...
28.02.2026 14:27 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Not pictured: careening drunks on Lime bikes and phalanxes of marauding delivery riders on souped-up Mad Max-mobiles.
26.02.2026 16:45 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also 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...
26.02.2026 09:26 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Latest Foreign Desk Explainer on Monocle Radio: a look at why Mexico has picked now to go after the CJNG. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
26.02.2026 09:01 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Surely "Jacques & Diane".
25.02.2026 12:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @lynneodonnell.bsky.social and @phmarliere.bsky.social on four years of Ukrainian resistance and the dayβs other stories, plus Lily Austin on the San Remo festival. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
24.02.2026 19:13 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Receiving this volume an annual delight, obviously, but that new Gold Coast home kit is the ugliest bloody thing ever worn on an AFL field, and that includes Gold Coastβs previous home kit.
24.02.2026 11:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @terrystiastny.bsky.social and @jparakilas.bsky.social on events in Mexico and the day's other stuff, plus @jmacrodgers.bsky.social on his terrific new book "The Return Of Russia", which you should all read. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
23.02.2026 19:59 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1"He showed me his badge. It said 'Chief Superintendent, Wallet-Inspection Squad."
23.02.2026 17:31 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Post images of Grandpa Simpson?
23.02.2026 17:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This must surely have led to people committing crimes just to get a ride in it.
22.02.2026 16:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And/but remiss not to note that the Polizia di Stato have at least one Lamborghini HuracΓ n in the garage: it is equipped with a small refrigerator, and has been deployed in organ transport operations. www.lamborghini.com/it-en/news/a...
22.02.2026 15:58 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Thatβs not how this works. The vehicles are driven at speed down the narrow streets and through the piazzas, garnering nary a scratch along the way, but the fruit stands fall victim to stallholders having at the last minute to fling themselves out of the way, invariably into their own wares.
22.02.2026 11:40 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Would be a crying shame if at least one of these vehicles has not at some point been driven through a fruit stand in pursuit of a rapscallion, or perhaps a neβer-do-well.
22.02.2026 11:37 β π 25 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Only in Italy. Police showcasing Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ducati.
22.02.2026 11:23 β π 38 π 4 π¬ 4 π 0Latest Foreign Desk is a @munsecconf.bsky.social special, with @glandsbergis.bsky.social, @tomtugendhat.bsky.social, Kurt Volker, Finnish defence minister Antti HΓ€kkΓ€nen and Benedetta Berti, Sec-Gen of NATO's parliamentary assembly. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
21.02.2026 16:22 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1