Andrew Mueller
@andrewmueller
Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
I too have lots of terrible and stupid ideas for reforming the game and would therefore like a job at the AFL.
Pointless helicopter coverage of motorcade! Pointless helicopter coverage of motorcade! *bangs clipboard on desk* POINTLESS HELICOPTER COVERAGE OF MOTORCADE!
This is a good bit on the late US senator Lindsey Graham by @rhfontaine.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com. All worth reading, but this - even if Graham was trying to be funny - is a splendidly astute summary of how the world works.
"We had goals that weren't counted. They had goals scored by dead people. There were goals delivered in drop boxes. Each of their goals was counted three times. The machines which count the goals are rigged by Venezuela."
Almedalen merch. Centrist jellybeans, much like the UK’s last two prime ministers, amirite. #satire #isthisthingworking
Monocle Radio is up and running at Almedalen. We’re broadcasting from Donnersgatan 6 all week, come by and say hello.
Visby, on Gotland. Here for the Swedish institution of Almedalen Week: the Monocle Daily is broadcasting from here tomorrow and Thursday.
I genuinely did not know this when I woke this morning, and it is a pub quiz question for the ages. If New Zealand's rugby team are famously called the All Blacks, what are the basketball team known as?
Glimpses of last night's Russian raid on Odesa. (That's outgoing air defence.) Not at all uncommon.
Using your skill, judgement and knowledge of manhole covers, guess where I am.
Chisinau. A keen and well-trained eye might spot veiled hints of pro-EU sentiment.
Always something mesmerising about what embezzlers do with the money. Imagine risking your career, reputation and freedom to fiddle £400,000 so you could spend two and a half grand on salt and pepper shakers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Australians once again dress themselves for what the British call a "heatwave".
Just delighted to see that any evocation of the 30-50 feral hogs meme still does numbers. Best day on social media ever.
Announcing Monocle Radio’s presence at this year’s Delphi Economic Forum with photo of hotel cat, whose name, I am informed, is Cappuccino, more as we get it.