Friday 24 September
The last-minute scramble to get everything ready for next week’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi is hardly unusual in India: a final push involving everyone in the village, plus the guests, to get arrangements finished is so…
Monday 31 October
It is easy to deride the Commonwealth as an irrelevance and an anachronism, which is doubtless why so many do.
Saturday 24 April
It’s host panic. The moment you realise that your guests will be here any minute and the place just doesn’t look ready.
Saturday 1 May
Unlike its American counterpart, professional Canadian football has never managed to become a truly coast-to-coast sport.
What’s gone wrong with the Qantas brand, urban farming in London and the Commonwealth heads of state meeting: what exactly is the point?
The Jogos da Lusofonia may not have the same draw as the Commonwealth Games or attract the corporate sponsorship of the Olympics. But the gathering of the old Portuguese empire showed that no matter how tenuous the links…
Holiday cities: Jeremy Hildreth discusses city-branding, we learn of Copenhagen’s tourism problem, and discuss the legacy of Delhi’s B&Bs built for the Commonwealth Games.
Jealous of the British-inspired Commonwealth Games and the Jeux de la Francophonie for nations of the former French empire, Portugal has created the Jogos da Lusofonia. In a world of soft power, pole vaulters and sprinters…
The ship that leaves from South Africa for St Helena has a practical purpose – it’s the only means of reaching the isolated island. But the ‘RMS St Helena’ is also a place where time stands still – harking back to the…
“How museums became soft power ambassadors”. Monocle and the V&A hosted a discussion exploring how culture nations. Moderated by Monocle’s editor in chief Tyler Brûle speakers on the panel were: - Simon Anholt, independent…
Global forecasting requires an expert view, so we called on four leading thinkers for a considered analysis of the future: Michael Axworthy, former head of the Iran section at the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office,…
Tuesday 24 August
In New Delhi, the humble public toilet goes by any number of names: wall, footpath, tree, abandoned car, occupied car.
Sunday 9 May
It was “disgraceful”, harrumphed David Dimbleby, the grand old man of British television election coverage, as news emerged of voters turned away from polling booths across Britain.
Sunday 7 November
Since 1769, when Captain James Cook first set foot in New Zealand and was met by a Maori war party, the haka has unsettled and aggravated the British.
Sunday 27 March
It does not bode well for a government when its choice for the country’s new anti-corruption chief is blocked by the judiciary because he has been accused of corruption.
Thursday 17 February
Josefa Iloilo, the former Fijian president whose scrapping of his island nation’s constitution cemented the grip of a 2006 military coup that isolated his country, has died aged 91.
Friday 21 December
There are just four days until Christmas. And while many of my colleagues and contemporaries are anticipating the big day with relish, I am a little uneasy. The reason? My fear that many of the certainties I have long…
Tuesday 22 September
Last night, Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen’s arrival in Washington was celebrated at his country’s embassy with a party in his honour.
Thursday 10 December
Australians like to think in widescreen: big skies, big, dry stretches of land, big oceans. And now you can add big houses to that list.
Thursday 28 June
I just got back from a two-week trip to Brazil and I was impressed with what’s happening there. We all know Brazil has been the motivating force in Latin America for a while.
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