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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newhumanist.org.uk | Andrew Mueller
How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive (John Murray) by Marcel Dirsus As late as November 1989, Nicolae Ceausescu probably thought things were motoring along pretty nicely. He was 71 years old, and had been the uncontested overlord of Romania since 1967. The 14th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party had just awarded him another five-year term. Construction of his ghastly 3,000-room palace in the heart of Bucharest was proceeding.
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gq.com.au | Andrew Mueller
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monocle.com | Andrew Mueller |Tomos Lewis
LDiplomats head back to Damascus and the US and China compete over technological progress. DIPLOMACY ––– CUBA & THE VATICANPennies from heavenAmong the flurry of announcements made by Joe Biden at the end of his presidency was something that caught many by surprise: the decision to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. In return, Havana agreed to release 550 prisoners, many of whom were jailed for taking part in anti-government demonstrations in 2021.
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Nov 27, 2024 |
monocle.com | Andrew Mueller
LThe importance of soft power, Algeria’s chocolate-hazelnut spread and France and Italy’s spat. F&B — ALGERIAHitting the sweet spotIn 2024, Nutella celebrated its 60th year as one of Italy’s most successful exports. But an Algerian upstart has been stealing the thunder of Ferrero Group’s famous chocolate spread. For sweet-toothed aficionados in France, Belgium and the Arab world, 2024 was the year of El Mordjene, a chocolate-and-hazelnut cream made by Algerian confectioner Cebon.
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Oct 28, 2024 |
newhumanist.org.uk | Andrew Mueller
Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters (John Murray) by Brian Klaas That you are reading this is stupendously unlikely. This is no reflection on New Humanist’s circulation (expanding, I’m told), but merely an attempt to render vaguely sensible the unfathomable odds against any of us existing at all. Each human being alive now is the product of an unbroken sequence of thousands of meetings stretching back millions of years, many if not most of them entirely random.
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