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About Monocle
Launched in February 2007, Monocle is a global briefing on international affairs, business, culture and design headquartered in London.
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Design / Fashion
Rummage sale
Shinji Kitada’s trade show, Jumble, is an intimate affair – by expo standards – that favours small and medium-sized fashion labels but which has an impressively global roster to match its international ambitions.
Business / Economics
Monocolumn
Saturday 18 December
Forecast 2011: India’s chance to smooth choppy waters
Half the world’s container ships and two-thirds of its oil shipments make their way across the Indian Ocean – a vital link in global trade.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Friday 22 January
Germans want their troops home
A few days before the international Afghanistan conference in London on 28 January, there are overwhelming signs that Germans are tired of sending their soldiers into a war many believe cannot be won.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 5 July
Taipei: More Chinese than the Chinese
Why the tiny rebel island off the coast of China developed into its own Chinese society.
Culture / Film
Monocolumn
Wednesday 17 February
And the winner is…
The recent Academy Award nomination for Ajami marks the third time in as many years that Israel has scored an Oscar nod for best foreign language film.
Business / Automotive
Monocolumn
Friday 27 November
Car makers race into India
Cross an Indian street and it probably won’t be news to you that car sales on the Subcontinent are booming here.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 14 October
The bad boys’ club
Following the massacre of more than 150 pro-democracy protestors in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, last month African leaders in the region wanted to send a message.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 30 March
Weekend agenda, 31 March/1 April
This weekend check out the art fair in Tokyo, catch an exhibition asking big questions in Monaco and lighten up with the new album from La Sera.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 17 February
The reaction to Fijian president’s death
Josefa Iloilo, the former Fijian president whose scrapping of his island nation’s constitution cemented the grip of a 2006 military coup that isolated his country, has died aged 91.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Thursday 14 October
New setback, same problems – an Israeli view on the peace process
The American envoy for Middle East peace is not a man to envy.
Affairs / Soft Power
Monocolumn
Wednesday 10 April
Why everyone loves a Brazilian
Monocle 24's resident Brazilian goes travelling in Europe and finds out what people really think of his country.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Wednesday 6 April
Serbia, Libya and internet gossip
Serbian pilots are “dive bombing” Libyan protesters and Serbian mercenaries are being paid tens of thousands of dollars to fight for Gaddafi. You have to have to pity the poor Serbs here.
Culture / Retail
Monocolumn
Friday 18 January
Retail’s new format
It's time to ask what kind of music and film stores we'd really like to see.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 19 December
Forecast 2011: Sarah Palin, international globetrotter?
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.
Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Tuesday 12 January
Good Evans? What the changing of the guard means for the BBC
Yesterday with a “Good morning friends!” and the Beatles’ trusty “All You Need Is Love”, Chris Evans succeeded Terry Wogan as presenter of the BBC’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show sending a tremor through British radio-land, a…
Culture / Media
News of the world
Broadcasting in 60 languages on the radio and with 27 foreign-language TV news programmes each week, SBS is a truly international news outlet – an unusual epithet in the world of Australian media.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 11 May
Weekend agenda 11/12 May
This weekend pick out a literary classic in Buenos Aires, take a cinematic trip to Greenland, and enjoy the new album from Atlanta band Deerhunter.
Business / Innovation
Bright young Finns
As Nokia takes part of its software development abroad, a new generation of Finnish entrepreneurs is waiting to fill the gap – as long as they get the chance.