Guy De Launey

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Balkans Correspondent 📹 BBC News, 🖋️ Monocle Magazine Presenter 🎙 Monocle Radio Moderator ⚖ at large Tadej Pogačar's mountain domestique No Abba https://monocle.com/contributors/guy-de-launey/

Extract from The Guardian honest playlist feature, interviewing the musician Tricky. Question - The song I’d like played at my funeral Answer - I’m never going to die, so there’s no need to think about that.
Kosovo's PM Albin Kurti all alone in the National Assembly
Billboard warning careless cyclists in Ljubljana that they face an €80 fine.
Poster for the film Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Campaign poster for Slovenia's SDS party, reading "Vote SDS, so your grandson will still sing Slovenian songs".
Med9 leaders standing at lecterns, a la Kraftwerk
Guy posing with bicycle on top of mount Krvavec, Slovenia.
Teenage girls performing acrobatics on a railway station concourse.
Copy of Guardian obituary of Sly Stone, highlighting the segment which says he "changed the direction of African-American pop music".
Picture of a packaged sandwich in Tokyo. The packaging says: because we make sandwich which are made from selected material, the sandwich are awesome.
Picture of Yoshitomo Nara's gigantic "lonesome puppy"
Bill Nighy and an ice cream van in Sometimes, Always, Never. Directed by Carl Hunter. The latter's bandmate in The Farm, Peter Hooton, plays the ice cream man. Filmed on Crosby beach, Merseyside.
Protesters standing outside the Philosophy Faculty in Belgrade, holding banners and placards.