Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Tuesday 16 April
Seeing the bigger picture
Recent bureaucratic run-ins with city planners over puppies and paint cans begs the age-old question – can't we all just get along?
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Design / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Tuesday 8 June
Egypt’s design revolution
“We see Egypt like an African China,” says Maurizio Ribotti, CEO of the Italian-based Design Partners and mastermind of the annual Zona Tortona satellite design event in Milan.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Wednesday 24 April
The exciting side of Brussels
The capital of EU bureaucracy sheds its less-than-thrilling image when Art Brussels comes to town.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 2 May
What UK politics can learn from Hungary
As Gordon Brown blunders his way across Britain, party spin-doctors have called in Stephen Hopkins, director of the nail-biting television series 24, to take charge of election videos. But Labour should be looking to Hun…
Affairs / Soft Power
Monocolumn
Wednesday 10 April
Why everyone loves a Brazilian
Monocle 24's resident Brazilian goes travelling in Europe and finds out what people really think of his country.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Thursday 9 June
Erdogan and the danger to democracy
The political success of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been sweeping. It is a forgone conclusion that his Justice and Development Party [AKP] will win a third consecutive election in Sunday’s vote. The…
Affairs / Travel
Monocolumn
Friday 20 August
India’s chaotic visa rules
Lately Israeli hippies returning to their homes in Goa and luxury goods CEOs on the prowl for new markets have all been pulling their hair and jumping up and down at India’s airports.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 23 May
Local history can hold global brands back
As unseasonably heavy rain poured down in Rome earlier this week, it was easy to see the weather as a meteorological mirror for the general economic climate.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 29 April
The challenges of corruption in Indonesia
Not many countries have an acronym for corruption. Indonesia does. KKN or korupsi, kolusi, nepotisme is the term used for what has become a phenomenon here.
Business / Transport
Monocolumn
Thursday 7 October
Eurostar – less French, more European
“Is there anything French left in your new trains?”
Business / Aviation
Monocolumn
Wednesday 18 August
Business jets: no room to spread their wings?
The Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE) in São Paulo is the second largest corporate jet fair in the world (after Geneva’s EBACE) and, like everything in Brazil, it’s growing.
Affairs / Music
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 December
Splitting headache for India
The Indian government may have got more than it bargained for when last week it agreed to the demands of the Telugu-speaking people in Andhra Pradesh to have their own state.
Design / Innovation
North stars
Denmark, Sweden and Finland boast institutions devoted to seeking design-led solutions to societal problems. Are they guiding stars for the world to follow?
Affairs / Crime
No. 1 lady detective
Forensic scientist Porntip Rojanasunan is loved by the Thai public for her fearless exposing of corruption in high places – and also for her unconventional dress sense.
Affairs / Government
A very civil service
From the ancient Greeks onwards, wise governments have seen the benefits of outsourcing. But what would a modern state look like if it put all of its ministries out to tender, employing the best foreign governments and…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 19 September
Can we have the Bill please?
Bill Clinton schedules his annual Clinton Global Initiative for the same week that the United Nations General Assembly convenes each September in New York. Naturally, it’s a time when Manhattan’s streets are jammed with the…
Design / Architecture
Tbilisi two
In an attempt to attract foreign investment and ditch its Soviet-era image, the Georgian president has enlisted Michele De Lucchi to fill the capital’s skies with ambitious architecture. The Italian is clearly succeeding…
Business / Urbanism
Madrid: business city
It may lack the financial might of London or Frankfurt, but we have chosen Madrid as our business city because of its emergence as the Iberian city of opportunity, its status as gateway to Latin America, campaign to att…
Affairs / Defence
Defence Briefing
Beijing and Delhi announce their defence budgets almost simultaneously, Egypt vies to build its own fighter aircraft and Israel unveils its text message air-raid warning system.