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.
Thursday 6 October
On the last stretch of the campaign before Poland’s parliamentary elections, which take place this Sunday, few pundits dare to predict the vote’s outcome, as opinion polls have swung back and forth over the past few weeks…
Leading up to the US elections, Monocle spoke to reporters from around the globe based in America about their take on the proceedings for our series ‘From their own correspondent’. With Obama storming to victory, they tell…
‘Magic walls’ and ‘QVR’ are in the lexicon this year for TV anchors covering the US election. Monocle looks at the networks’ top 10 secret weapons in the battle to report the winners and losers of the big day.
US voters are perceived as being oblivious to the world outside their country. But war, immigration and an increasingly globalised economy mean that foreign affairs will play a bigger part in the 2008 election than they…
Sunday 21 October
Regular listeners to Monocle 24 will know that I recently spoke about how São Paulo was at risk of electing a populist mayor, a move that would undoubtedly damage the image of the city. How wrong I was.
Wednesday 7 November
I didn’t vote. And as an American living abroad, an industrious member of that statistically-elusive, criminally-overlooked and swing state-sized expat contingent, I’m more than a bit embarrassed that I squandered my sacred…
Wednesday 29 June
With their distinctive white headscarves, the elderly women who march around Buenos Aires’ central plaza every week – doggedly appealing for information about their children who were “disappeared” by the former military…
Saturday 19 February
Democratic elections in Africa’s most populous nation would be problematic even without the violence and alleged fraud that has marred Nigeria’s previous polls.
Saturday 22 January
The landslides and floods that tore through the mountains surrounding Rio de Janeiro on 12 January have so far claimed at least 762 lives.
Wednesday 4 August
On 28 November, the perpetually beleaguered and misruled Caribbean nation of Haiti will choose a new president.
Wednesday 5 May
Three weeks ago, the ascent of the Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats seemed like the relief Britain needed from a tiresome tug-of-war between the Conservative’s David Cameron and the Labour prime minister Gordon Brown. But as…
Monday 21 February
A rare battle for the UN presidency is gaining momentum between two Asian nations whose situations couldn’t be further apart.
Tuesday 19 April
As the national broadcasting company Yle presented Finland’s parliamentary election result prognosis on Sunday evening, accompanied by a suspense-heightening soundtrack, a collective gasp of breath was drawn all over the…
Friday 28 May
As Colombians head to the polls tomorrow, what once looked like a forgone conclusion has recently turned into a razor-tight presidential race that is too close to call.
No election is as large and as talked about as the race for the White House. Monocle 24 dispatched a team to New York to cover the vote for a special series of Midori House broadcasts and our film team was on hand to cap…
Monday 19 September
Denmark has a new prime minister, the first woman ever to fill the post and the very model of a slick, modern, media-savvy European leader: she is the Social Democrat, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Sunday 28 November
The next president of Haiti was already facing a catalogue of woes: nearly one million homeless, a civil service crippled by January’s earthquake, a new superstructure of international aid workers covering the country in…
Monday 5 April
Hungary goes to the polls next Sunday in an election that analysts predict will produce a landslide victory for the centre-right opposition Fidesz party.
Tuesday 27 April
Common wisdom has it that Germany has come to terms with its Nazi past, while Austria is still in a state of denial. That debate continues, but the result of Sunday’s presidential elections in Austria show that the appeal…
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