But wait, what, everyone hasn’t been thinking like this the whole time?

Clips, titles and some of the best idents in broadcasting - a little mash-up I've done for tonight's Newsnight to celebrate BBC2's diamond anniversary. It's been a treat seeing my work on this channel, my broadcasting home for many years. Very sad I'll soon be leaving it.

Monocle on Saturday: Political scandals, a new opera by ROSABELLA GREGORY and Dina Soraya Gregory, and a celebration of Romani writers with Louise Doughty. Join Terry Stiastny and Georgina Godwin for this and more of the week’s news and culture
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The Monocle Daily: Terry Stiastny and Stephen Dalziel on the Moscow attacks and the UN’s call for a Gaza ceasefire. Plus: Nina de Roy dos Santos on UK-China spying, and the The New Humanitarian’s Yemen Listening Project
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Monocle on Sunday: Emma Nelson is joined by Terry Stiastny and Stephen Dalziel. We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, in Lisbon and Naveena Kottoor, Monocle’s correspondent in Nairobi.
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See, Calum Macdonald, I’m all set to book a flight leaving the country on Thursday 30th May and now you’re making me worried.

Well, if Messi the dog wasn’t actually applauding then that’s the only photo scandal I’m interested in today.

Loving Anatomy of a Fall and particularly the switching of languages, what you might be able to express in one language but not in another.

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Monocle on Saturday: Alexei Navalny’s funeral, Rishi Sunak’s speech and a Russian spy exposed. Join Vincent McAviney and Terry Stiastny for a look at the week’s news and culture. Plus: the world’s best biscuits with Fernando Augusto Pacheco
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5.40pm on a Friday is not the optimum time to make a statement about anything, in my view.

The Monocle Daily: Terry Stiastny and Ben Kelly discuss the role of protests during conflict, Ireland’s neutrality, short-haul flight bans and whether cash can be king again. Plus: we look back at #CPAC
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In case you didn’t get to see it, here is the full video of Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs singing “Fast Car” at the Grammys

The speed with which you write makes me realise that good things take time — American Fiction, probably slightly misremembered

Just rebrand it as ‘picture of angry monkey’ and you’ll be fine. (Please tell me other people can see this in the ink blot, therapy is too expensive.)

Monocle on Saturday: Join Emma Nelson and Terry Stiastny for this week’s news. Plus: an arts and culture round-up with Issabella Orlando monocle.com/radio/shows/mo…

We do all realise that just the f***ing clown’ bit is true and the rest is made up by a parody account, right? Ok, as you were.