Affairs / Travel
Monocolumn
Monday 12 July
The flipper-side of tourism
Whichever way you cut it, dolphins are big in Japan. Appreciation for the cheesy grinning mammals takes almost every imaginable form.
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Affairs / Politics
Oceania Briefing
Eurozone citizens head to Australia, schools get tough on pupils in Micronesia, and the authorities investigate dolphin smuggling in the Solomon Islands.
The Globalist, episode 211
Discussion of South Korea’s presidency battle, we do the business in Tokyo, and author Juliet Gardiner explains what dolphins, pigeons and llamas have in common.
Affairs / Retail
Monocolumn
Thursday 5 August
First taste of the Apple Store
Tomorrow morning at 10.00, Apple will open its largest store, located at the rather regal address of No 1 Piazza, in London’s Covent Garden.
Affairs / Defence
Duty and the beast
Never work with animals is a mantra in TV but exotic, domestic and native beasts have been employed to work in conflicts around the world with mixed consequences. Take a walk on the wild side with Monocle.
Affairs / Defence
International: defence special briefing
Defence special: tension hotspots; Russian submariners get rescue lessons with the Norwegians.
Business / Craft
Float market
The yachting industry has suffered some knocks and Cannes boat fair was 14 per cent down in attendance this year, but there are signs it’s on course for a recovery. And there’s a new appreciation of old-school and sustai…
Affairs / Emerging Markets
Waiting in the Isles
They’re sunny, beautiful and safe but Portugal doesn’t seem to know what to do with them. Maybe it’s time to start recognising the potential of the Azores.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocle travel guide
This month’s tips for travellers include foodie havens in Jerusalem and Miami, and beautiful places to lay your head in Santiago, Copenhagen and the Italian countryside. We also profile Japan’s one-plane airline, Amakusa…
Edits / Property
Kolonaki and Psiri
Leave the summer hordes behind in favour of a toothsome flat-hunting tour around Greece’s ruin-strewn capital. Kolonaki and Psiri, two very different neighbourhoods, offer up some smart urban boltholes and investment opp…
Affairs / Soft Power
Rebrand Britain
Great Britain hasn’t seemed quite so great in recent years, its image damaged by unpopular wars and the banking crisis. But with the new coalition government bedded in and the Olympics on the horizon, experts from the…