Andrew Mueller
Contributing Editor at Monocle
Podcast Host at Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk Podcast
Contributor at Freelance
Contributing Editor, Monocle. Host of The Foreign Desk on @monocle_radio. New book about Australian football, "Carn", available now. Plays in @theblazingzoos.
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2 days ago |
gq.com.au | Andrew Mueller
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5 days ago |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
We report from the Black Sea port city of Odesa, where life goes on, despite the threat of Russian attacks. In a sane world, it would be difficult to move on Odesa's cobbled streets for young men on stag nights, city-breakers trying to avoid them and influencers photographing themselves in front of beautiful buildings resembling wedding cakes ( writes Andrew Mueller). In our world, however, no budget airlines are touching down at Odesa International - or have done so for more than three years.
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1 week ago |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
Qatar's reported offer of a Boeing 747 to US president Donald Trump is not the first such gratuity in the history of US-Middle East relations. The same gift was presented in the opposite direction in February 1945, when US president Franklin D Roosevelt gave Saudi Arabia's founding king, Ibn Saud, a Dakota DC-3. The Dakota was a less exclusive aircraft than the Qatari 747 coveted by Trump.
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2 weeks ago |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
At the Munich Security Conference in February, the US vice-president, JD Vance, informed his hosts that they were a wretched bunch of effete, cheese-eating milquetoasts with whom his country could no longer be bothered (I paraphrase but not that much). There has since been lots of hand-wringing about how the continent should respond to the threat of US abandonment.
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2 weeks ago |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
If you think you're having a bad week at work, spare a thought for the Filipino strategists and advisors of the defeated candidates in Davao City's recent mayoral election. They all lost by colossal margins to an 80-year-old who is not only awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity but is doing so in a foreign prison. Not for the first time, Rodrigo Duterte has defied all conventional wisdom about politics - as well as common sense.
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