Solving conflict in the Middle East: How to break the deadlock - Monocle A Gaza ceasefire might be in place but what are the actual long-term solutions to conflict in the Middle East?...

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Yossi Mekelberg of @chmenap.bsky.social and Julie Norman of @ucl.ac.uk on the possible futures of Gaza and the day's other stuff, plus @rosegeorge.bsky.social on her fine new book "Every Last Fish". monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Modern fishing is going further and deeper than ever. But there's a big catch Fishing efforts multiplied nine times between 1970 and 2008. And yet the more we fish, the less fish we are catching.

"The High Seas Treaty is the best thing in ocean conservation news since the oceans needed conserving." Read @rosegeorge.bsky.social's new essay in Big Issue, her new book EVERY LAST FISH is in stores now.
www.bigissue.com/life/food/mo...

‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose The long read: When a fishing boat left port in Alaska in December 2019 with an experienced crew, an icy storm was brewing. What happened to them shows why deep sea fishing is one of the most dangerou...

I wrote today’s Guardian Long Read: an account of the awful sinking of the #ScandiesRose on the first day of 2020, with the loss of five men. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

She used to be a fantastic magazine writer. Her historical novel was OK. But now I can’t abide her.

I am MYW.
Mardy Yorkshire Woman.

Ah

Guess I should have known when it asked me if I identified as a cisgender woman. No, love. Just a woman, that’s plenty enough.

Could someone tell me what the f*ck these abbreviations mean? Not the star signs. I understand those though not why they are considered part of a personality. This is from Breeze dating app btw.

This is horrific. I doubt they’d let me in either. Bye bye America for a while.

No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.

Dora thoroughly ignoring the new catnip toys that she has been delighting in, because I was trying to show my brother how much she loved them.

The quick thinking that averted oil catastrophe in the North Sea Although one sailor died, the tanker collision might have been far worse without the speed and bravery of the rescue — and some lessons from history

This is a great piece on why we are not seeing oiled birds off Grimsby. Nice to see follow-up after all the disaster writing.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nort...

Collage of my products and designs including cushions, mugs, prints and phone cases with bright and bold designs.

I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please repost.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!

Heard what referred to?

Glad the crews are safe. But not glad at what sea life is now suffering.

FWIW the vast majority of shipping accidents are caused by human error. My money is on an unattended bridge. Nothing much else makes sense with all the tech on offer. But eyes are as useful as tech.

So rude.

Hello, I’m dining on my own. I’d like you to ask me several times if I’m on my own please, then seat me on the table nearest the toilets, then ostentatiously remove the second set of cutlery while asking me again if I’m on my own. Otherwise it just wouldn’t be right.

Why do we assume smell is our weakest sense? My cat can smell depression. Another family cat could smell my stepfather’s dementia. They both became more affectionate and tactile: the dementia-smelling cat would gently paw my stepfather, when he ...

Belatedly, here is a review I wrote of a very good book about smell. www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...

Copy edit back from US copy editor. Who comments that “this author’s writing is steeped in UK idiom.” Hmm. I wonder why?

Goodness. Thank you so much.

Someone should tell millennials in the outdoors that it’s OK to greet other human beings.

Americans, every day:

Dunno, keeping ships afloat is a kind of magic. Anyway, thank you.

Season’s greetings to you.

OK to post a sumptuous, kempt, posh hotel #duvetknowitschristmas too?

Obliged. What’s the shipping forecast for Haworth?

Message from a fell running friend I am meant to be racing with today on the moors. “95% chance of rain & 50mph winds, do you still want to do it?”
*considers state of head & heart*
“Yes.”

On a par with me standing behind Peter Gabriel for a group photo at TED, and coming up with, “you’re ahead of me in the alphabet.”

So you encourage paperless statements #cooperativebank but you can’t actually search them all online, but instead you encourage the customer to print them out. Huh?

Nice one #Co-operativeBank: an online banking system in which you can’t search online past 13 months. Totally antiquated. Bye bye Co-op after 30 years.