Affairs / Society
Force for good
Haiti is picking up the pieces – but sooner or later another natural disaster will strike. Here, Monocle looks at the best nations to call in a crisis and tools you need for the job.
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Affairs / Government
Japan Briefing
As Japan starts to rebuild following the events of March, the management of the crisis and its aftermath has revealed deep-seated problems within the Japanese political system. The country boasts a long list of dysfuncti…
Affairs / Society
What a relief
When it comes to disasters, the first few hours make all the difference to rescue and relief efforts. And the better the kit, the greater the chance of saving lives. But is it time for a permanent rapid reaction force?
The Globalist: Asia, episode 2
Our man in Istanbul explains the latest roadblock to hit the Turkish government’s peace deal with the PKK, we head to Caracas for the latest post-Chavez update, and we talk crisis management post-Fukushima with Kay Kitazawa…
Business / Economics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 23 September
Crisis? What crisis?
The somewhat odd celebrations on the first birthday of the financial crisis offered much remorse and only dim rays of hope.
Affairs / Entrepreneurialism
Monocolumn
Sunday 17 January
Germans get adventurous
After years of longing for a job for life and worshipping the ideal of staying at home in comfort, Germans are showing signs of becoming globally minded entrepreneurs.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 17 September
Riding the wave after a hostage release
When American hiker Sarah Shourd was released last week after 14 months in an Iranian jail, a private jet was waiting for her.
Business / Sport
Monocolumn
Friday 24 September
Commonwealth debacle – part of a national tradition
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…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 27 November
Trouble for the Muslim Brotherhood
Times are tough for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s leading organised opposition movement and progenitor of several powerful Islamist groups across the Middle East.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 1 November
Priests, bankers and protestors
The protestors at the Occupy London Stock Exchange demonstration have claimed another scalp.
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 17 August
The summer of discontent
It started with an ordinarily looking Facebook page, advocating a boycott of a common Israeli cottage cheese for its costly price (£1.50 for 250g).
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Monday 10 October
Hungary gives two fingers to the banks
Many political parties talk left but act right when they win power.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Tuesday 22 September
Summit or nothing
Last night, Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen’s arrival in Washington was celebrated at his country’s embassy with a party in his honour.
Business / Aviation
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 September
JAL hits turbulent times
It’s perhaps fitting that I’m filing this first Monocolumn from seat 1A on a JAL777 from Haneda to Osaka’s Itami airport just as the airline has announced it will be letting around 7,000 staff go over the next three years…
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Saturday 6 November
Europe’s greenest towns
Imagine a city where everyone lives next to a park, where people cycle to work on safe bike routes or hop on to convenient trams if it’s raining, where the air is clean and the traffic noise is, if not absent, at least…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 31 October
The politics of disaster
Natural disasters are supposed to be apolitical. Campaigning ceases, adverts are pared back, the daily round of polls disappears. Yet with just a few days to go until a presidential election, nothing is apolitical.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Thursday 24 June
Chisinau: the real media revolution is underway
In April last year, Moldova made international headlines when its exotically-titled “Twitter Revolution” triggered an election rerun, toppling the Communist party from power after eight long years.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 10 August
UK Riots Part 2: Do French and British societies suffer the same social ills?
A youth from a segregated area dies as the result of a police chase, leading to widespread, violent riots: Paris in 2005, London in 2011 – two similar scenarios, both highlighting a social rather than ethnic malaise.
Design / Interior design
Monocolumn
Tuesday 19 October
Best in show at Interieur biennale
The Interieur biennale, which opened in the sleepy Belgian town of Kortrijk at the weekend, is an insider favourite on the design fair circuit.
Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Wednesday 20 June
Pitch imperfect: Germany v Greece
Tomorrow night sees the latest instalment of an increasingly fraught story of two nations who seem to be on divergent paths.