Saturday 30 October
The Japanese sure don’t shy away from a shandy – yet when the Japanese Foreign Ministry recently conducted an audit of its embassies, consulates and government offices abroad, even they found the stocks sobering.
If you’re Germany, you have no option but to assert yourself globally with a softly, softly approach. Since the fall of the Wall, Germany’s foreign office has become master of gently promoting ‘Brand Germany’, with Berlin…
“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…
Thursday 4 November
Few countries have a more conflicted relationship with the United Nations than Israel.
Monday 21 December
As diplomatic notes go, it wasn’t exactly full of diplomacy. Nine embassies, including those of Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan and Switzerland issued a statement condemning the lack of transparency in tenders…
Monday 19 April
Last week, Britain’s three main party leaders took part in the first of a series of live TV debates.
Friday 18 February
Verb conjugation; adverbial clauses; the future progressive: forget financial jargon, these are the words that may soon be found flying around the offices of Japan’s banking world.
Saturday 28 April
There’s a wedding happening today, apparently.
Friday 20 August
Lately Israeli hippies returning to their homes in Goa and luxury goods CEOs on the prowl for new markets have all been pulling their hair and jumping up and down at India’s airports.
Monday 5 September
When Pakistan allied itself with America after 9/11, the country was rejuvenated.
Wednesday 5 December
“Have you ever been shot?” The question was asked in all innocence. He meant no harm. He was genuinely interested in the answer. And yet, underneath, there was a sense of scepticism. Perhaps an understandable sense of…
Thursday 31 December
If 2009 was the year that liberal Democrats realised that President Barack Obama was more hawkish than the man they thought they had elected, 2010 will bring a bigger political adjustment.
Monday 30 May
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…
Sunday 25 April
Britain’s five-million strong Catholic community has a pretty thick skin when it comes to insults about their church and the Pope, so a leaked Foreign Office memo suggesting that Benedict XVI’s visit in September could…
Thursday 29 July
At the Mexican Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, the date 29 July had been marked on calendars for months.
Monday 16 January
On 24 June 2014, the 700th anniversary of Bannockburn, when the Scots defeated the English in the wars for independence, the Scots made another bid for independence.
Monday 11 April
Each year Milan’s Salone continues to sprawl into more of the city’s neighbourhoods, with more events, cocktails and sideshows to lure visitors away from the never-ending Rho fairgrounds. One of this year’s must-sees of…
Sunday 19 December
Sarah Palin recently returned from a trip to Haiti and news reports suggest she is planning to spend some of early 2011 visiting Israel and the UK.
Tuesday 1 March
For nearly two years, there have been nearly unanimous verdicts among Republicans on virtually every aspect of Barack Obama’s policymaking.
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