Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 6 May
Remember online manners, please
I remember reeling when I first heard the word “netiquette”. It’s not exactly a beautiful or sexy incarnation of the English language.
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Culture / Craft
Petit prints
In an age of email the postcard is threatened in some quarters but not in the museum world, where they remain big business. Monocle meets the teams behind some of the world’s mini masterpieces.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Friday 4 November
Email etiquette and when to send kisses
Among the thorniest of questions posed by the inexorable rise of the worldwide web is that of email etiquette, a minefield that would surely have given the late Emily Post sleepless nights.
Business / CEOs
Safety net
An epidemic is threatening 1.2 billion people. Let’s be grateful then for people like Kimmo Alkio, CEO and president of F-Secure, who aims to stamp out the modern-day blight of spam email and also comes to the rescue when…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 31 July
Can Italians afford a summer break?
Buone vacanze emails have started coming thick and fast from Italian friends and contacts, the lucky ones with jobs.
Affairs / Travel
Monocolumn
Wednesday 7 July
The politics of holidays
An interesting email message was sent the other day to a senior Israeli journalist by the press office of the Greek embassy in Tel Aviv.
Affairs / Management
Monocolumn
Thursday 2 February
Brazil’s new overtime law is hard work for enforcers
It would be a dream for overworked employees everywhere: that checking emails or answering phone calls after working hours might be considered overtime.
Business / Manufacturing
Up the tubes
Email looked to have made obsolete the process of transporting data by pneumatic tubes, but logistics firm Swisslog saw a potential growth market: healthcare. Now, every new hospital has a network to carry drugs and samples…
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 25 January
It’s a sir thing
While we've all been busy getting chummy in the email sphere, when meeting people face-to-face things seem to be getting more formal. Monocle's editor muses on the changing world of manners.
The Entrepreneurs, episode 70
We visit Louis XIV’s favourite candle maker to see how they’re plying the wax trade in the 21st century, meet a radiologist-turned-designer who explains the medical influences on her work, and ask how a little email news…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 25 July
Talking to government, east Asian style
Submitting government interview requests in east Asia is not something that should be taken lightly.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Monday 14 March
Japan focus: capital city left quaking
The regular frisson of fear that earth tremors produce in Japan.
Edits / Fashion
Monocolumn
Wednesday 28 November
Not a good look
I had never met her, had never even been aware of her existence. She works for a fashion business that presumably wants to be featured in the magazine.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Monday 30 May
France 24 licks its wounds after ‘playground’ fight
It was meant to be a new face for France in the world – a multilingual rolling news channel to compete with CNN and the BBC. But five years since its launch, France 24 is limping along, shamed by a chaotic feud between its…
Culture / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Monday 25 March
Whose list are you on?
London's nightlife is some of the best in the world but red tape and heavy-handed security are making the good times an exclusive event.
Design / Interior design
Monocolumn
Sunday 10 April
The Salone series: Seven year itch at Established & Sons
There’s a great deal of expectation riding on this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan. As well as being the 50th anniversary of the fair, it’s also the 150th anniversary of Italian unification.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Wednesday 1 December
Wikileaks causes a storm in a teacup
Rarely has any journalistic scoop revealed so much that so many already knew – or might have guessed.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 20 April
Building consensus for a change in stalking laws
Last week saw the launch of the UK’s inaugural National Stalking Awareness Week.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Thursday 17 January
Lost in technology
A cautionary tale of what can happen if you love your sat nav a little too much
Business / Industry
Looks good on paper
Who puts the lead in your pencil? Probably a German firm with a history of making fine writing instruments. And it’s a past these players want to highlight as they do battle with those pesky digital gadgets. Meet the stars…