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.
Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio is a greatest hits of 2025's Foreign Desk Explainers. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
The best of the Explainer 2025 - Monocle
The most notable world events that we explained in 2025.
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January 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio is a greatest hits of 2025's Foreign Desk Explainers. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Not most important thing going on in world, etc, but seen today near Canberra: honest-to-goodness live, in the wild, echidna, the best Australian animal, and therefore the best animal.
January 3, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Not most important thing going on in world, etc, but seen today near Canberra: honest-to-goodness live, in the wild, echidna, the best Australian animal, and therefore the best animal.
Canberra. There are countries which commemorate former leaders with heroic statuary. I kind of prefer that Australia does this.
January 3, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Canberra. There are countries which commemorate former leaders with heroic statuary. I kind of prefer that Australia does this.
Did not see a single cockatoo, 3/10.
January 1, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Did not see a single cockatoo, 3/10.
World’s lamest guess-the-city competition, enjoy.
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
World’s lamest guess-the-city competition, enjoy.
Best of 2025 episode of The Foreign Desk. Features Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili, Georgian Legion commander Mamuka Mamulashvili, Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas, Palestinian negotiator Ghaith Al-Omari, and @vkaramurza.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
The best of 2025 - Monocle
Andrew Mueller reflects on some of his favourite, and most impactful, conversations from the year on 'The Foreign Desk'
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December 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Best of 2025 episode of The Foreign Desk. Features Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili, Georgian Legion commander Mamuka Mamulashvili, Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas, Palestinian negotiator Ghaith Al-Omari, and @vkaramurza.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
In further adventures in Melbourne book-shopping, can report that in the new Hill Of Content store on Bourke Street, "Housebreaker" by @lukehaines.bsky.social/The Auteurs was playing.
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
In further adventures in Melbourne book-shopping, can report that in the new Hill Of Content store on Bourke Street, "Housebreaker" by @lukehaines.bsky.social/The Auteurs was playing.
If YOU are in Melbourne and scrambling for a Xmas gift for the football fan in your life, the big Dymocks in town has copies available, etc. Hopefully not the same ones I saw last year.
December 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
If YOU are in Melbourne and scrambling for a Xmas gift for the football fan in your life, the big Dymocks in town has copies available, etc. Hopefully not the same ones I saw last year.
Catching up on the camel racing at Muscat airport.
December 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Catching up on the camel racing at Muscat airport.
Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio. The world in 2025 reviewed by our panel of sages: Quentin Peel, Julie Norman and Yossi Mekelberg. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
2025 in review - Monocle
Andrew Mueller and our expert panel look back at the world events that shaped 2025.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio. The world in 2025 reviewed by our panel of sages: Quentin Peel, Julie Norman and Yossi Mekelberg. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
He will absolutely try to rename one decent-sized city after himself before he's done, possibly a state.
Breaking News: Workers began adding President Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center, despite no action by Congress to legally rename it. This sparked outrage among the Kennedy family, since it was built to be a living memorial to the 35th president.
Trump Live Updates: Kennedy Center Adds Trump’s Name to Facade, DOJ to Release More Epstein Files
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December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
He will absolutely try to rename one decent-sized city after himself before he's done, possibly a state.
Reposted by Andrew Mueller
His holiness.
Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster
Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster
The new leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has been appointed by the Pope.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
His holiness.
He's going to wing it, is that anything.
Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster
Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster
The new leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has been appointed by the Pope.
news.sky.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
He's going to wing it, is that anything.
Reposted by Andrew Mueller
He saw the light.
Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster
Bishop Richard Moth named as new Archbishop of Westminster
The new leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has been appointed by the Pope.
news.sky.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
He saw the light.
Reposted by Andrew Mueller
I read somewhere that the secret key to postwar British history is that in any incident, meeting, whatever, there’s a high chance that most participants are a bit tipsy and someone round the table is absolutely steaming drunk.
Happy 79th anniversary to this diary entry from Evelyn Waugh, in which he drinks enough to make you wonder how he lived for a further 19 years:
December 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I read somewhere that the secret key to postwar British history is that in any incident, meeting, whatever, there’s a high chance that most participants are a bit tipsy and someone round the table is absolutely steaming drunk.
Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio gets into what the deal is with the Belarusian balloon barrage. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Explainer 498: Belarus’s balloon offensive - Monocle
Lithuania has been beleaguered by balloons drifting into its airspace from neighbouring Belarus. What are the military advantages of this...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Latest Foreign Desk Explainer for Monocle Radio gets into what the deal is with the Belarusian balloon barrage. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social and Rebecca Tinsley of @network4africa.bsky.social on the day's big stories, and @joanamoser.bsky.social attends the new London exhibition by Sarkis. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
A political scandal shakes the White House. Plus: the UK rejoins the EU’s Erasmus scheme - Monocle
We discuss the consequences of Donald Trump’s chief of staff's tell-all interview with ‘Vanity Fair’. Then: the UK is set...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social and Rebecca Tinsley of @network4africa.bsky.social on the day's big stories, and @joanamoser.bsky.social attends the new London exhibition by Sarkis. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Going through the clippings from book tours to see if I was ever misquoted in the Tumbarumba Post or the Toowoomba Chronicle or the Wagga Wagga Advertiser or whoever, so I can sue them for a zillion jillion quid. And a medal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump sues BBC for defamation over Panorama speech edit
The US president has requested $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Going through the clippings from book tours to see if I was ever misquoted in the Tumbarumba Post or the Toowoomba Chronicle or the Wagga Wagga Advertiser or whoever, so I can sue them for a zillion jillion quid. And a medal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Julie Norman on Netanyahu's response to the Bondi shooting, John Everard and @mlorimer.bsky.social on the day's other stories and whether Xmas makes us nicer, and some words for the late, great Rob Reiner. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Israel’s reaction to the Bondi beach shooting - Monocle
We unpack how Israel is reacting to the shooting at Bondi beach. Then: A flurry of talks in Berlin suggest...
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December 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Julie Norman on Netanyahu's response to the Bondi shooting, John Everard and @mlorimer.bsky.social on the day's other stories and whether Xmas makes us nicer, and some words for the late, great Rob Reiner. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
"Actually mate, just let me out at these lights. I'll walk the last 30 blocks."
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Actually mate, just let me out at these lights. I'll walk the last 30 blocks."
The passing of Rob and Michele Reiner is dreadful for many reasons, but every current or former rock journalist will be raising one for the director of "This Is Spinal Tap", not just one of the funniest films ever made, but the most accurate ever depiction of the touring rock band's life.
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The passing of Rob and Michele Reiner is dreadful for many reasons, but every current or former rock journalist will be raising one for the director of "This Is Spinal Tap", not just one of the funniest films ever made, but the most accurate ever depiction of the touring rock band's life.
Some thoughts on Bondi for Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/in-t...
In the darkness of the Bondi Beach massacre, a civilian’s heroism gives Albanese a clear path forward - Monocle
The Bondi Beach attack was callous and anti-Semitic but the fallout could provide further ugliness yet. The reaction – like...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Some thoughts on Bondi for Monocle. monocle.com/affairs/in-t...
And here's the latest episode of The Big Interview, with @vkaramurza.bsky.social, reflecting on his 25-year sentence to a Siberian prison colony, his surprise release, and his hopes for Russia's future. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Vladimir Kara-Murza - Monocle
Russian politician, historian and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza speaks to Andrew Mueller about surviving solitary confinement in a Siberian prison, Putin’s...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And here's the latest episode of The Big Interview, with @vkaramurza.bsky.social, reflecting on his 25-year sentence to a Siberian prison colony, his surprise release, and his hopes for Russia's future. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio. Looking at what's behind the (latest) China-Japan diplomatic spat. With @yukaf24.bsky.social, Steve Tsang of the @soasuni.bsky.social China Institute and @epejsova.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Could Taiwan draw the US, China and Japan into war? - Monocle
Japan prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s assertion that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a threat to her nation’s survival...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Latest Foreign Desk for Monocle Radio. Looking at what's behind the (latest) China-Japan diplomatic spat. With @yukaf24.bsky.social, Steve Tsang of the @soasuni.bsky.social China Institute and @epejsova.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Reviewed the 20th anniversary reissue of @drivebytruckers.bsky.social's still-astonishing "Decoration Day" for Uncut. www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/albu...
Reviewed: Drive-By Truckers – The Definitive Decoration Day
Their brilliant, unsentimental fourth, remixed, remastered and expanded
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December 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reviewed the 20th anniversary reissue of @drivebytruckers.bsky.social's still-astonishing "Decoration Day" for Uncut. www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/albu...