Affairs / Sport
Serious foul play
Tuesday 11 March
That one of the world’s biggest football tournaments is sponsored by Russia’s largest company shows why there is a very small chance of Vladimir Putin ever being on the end of a sanction.
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Affairs / Environment
Predicting the monsoon
Sunday 18 April
From the baking plains of the Deccan Plateau to the boardrooms of Mumbai, everyone is keeping a weather eye on India’s skies as the annual monsoon approaches.
57 Affairs / Government
Talk it out
The Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries is made up of eight countries spanning four continents, sharing only that common tongue. Monocle paid a visit to find out if they are all singing from the same hymn sheet.
Affairs / Crime
The odds stacked against the street kids
Monday 5 July
Gangs of teenage boys skulk on badly lit corners and outside pitifully dingy convenience stores in Mexico’s border city of Ciudad Juárez.
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Affairs / Aviation
Quality of life series – Hong Kong airport’s third runway
Wednesday 15 June
Hong Kong airport is reaching saturation point. On the doorstep of the world’s second largest economy and faced with increasing competition from rivals in both mainland China and nearby Singapore, Hong Kong is planning to…
10 Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East briefing
Quick quiz question. Which part of France has the highest birth rate? Paris? Bordeaux? Marseille? The answer lies further south. Some 5,000 miles further south.
31 Affairs / Diplomacy
Peace station
The Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration, aka the Peace Palace, houses a crack team striving to resolve international disputes and bring about world peace. It may sound idealistic, but its services are increasingly in…
20 Affairs / Urbanism
Wealth and safety
In 1974 residents started moving to AlphaVille, São Paulo’s first gated community. Today there are 300 around the city. While residents may have escaped from becoming entries in the city’s kidnap and murder statistics, they…
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19 Affairs / Innovation
Here's to the future
There’s a real sense that we are entering a new era, with a fresh, sharp president in the White House and an economy in flux. Here five leading thinkers, writers and academics – Alain de Botton, Paula Scher, Andrew J Bac…
Affairs / Society
Royal wedding – the rebublican conundrum
Saturday 28 April
There’s a wedding happening today, apparently.
Affairs / Defence
Egypt’s military might up there with the big boys – for now
Friday 11 February
Of the more arresting images beamed around the world from the streets surrounding Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square was footage of protesters facing stationed tanks.
Affairs / Sport
The identikit Olympics
Tuesday 24 July
Last week I arrived back in London after 10 days on the road. Normally I shuttle back into town on the Heathrow Express but this time I decided to take a taxi – for cost and logistical reasons.