Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 19 April
The Liberal Democrats triumph
Last week, Britain’s three main party leaders took part in the first of a series of live TV debates.
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Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 6 February
Why honesty really is the best policy
As yet another British politician falls on his own sword of deceit, Tom Edwards asks: when will they ever learn?
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Thursday 31 December
2010: America’s war policy
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.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 5 May
UK elections: What the foreign correspondent saw
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…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 1 August
Obama, king of compromise
At some point before midnight, Barack Obama will likely put his name to an austerity plan passed last night by Congress, with just hours to spare before the United States reaches its borrowing limit, a deadline that would…
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 26 October
Earning his stripes
One of the few bright appointments the new German government produced during its coalition negotiations – the controversial results of which were announced yesterday – is the country’s future defence minister.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 19 April
The odd threesome – True Finns likely to join coalition
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…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 31 May
Former factory worker set to shake up politics
As political reincarnations go, few have been as radical as that of Patricia De Lille, the 60-year-old firebrand politician who will today be sworn in as mayor of Cape Town. She is a woman to watch: an outsider who could…
Design / Fashion
Monocolumn
Wednesday 8 February
Political fashion for men is a conservative affair
We’re in a media age where politicians’ sporting prowess or domestic pet ownership can be as meticulously chewed over by the media as actual policy.
Affairs / Politics
Americas briefing
A party in disarray, riven by ideological and regional splits, torn between populist impulses and its donor class’s economic interest, with glaring electoral deficiencies among major voting blocs and no leader to unify the…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 8 July
The blot on the West
At some stage in the future there will be major political scandal about the West’s long-term funding and arming of a dictatorial regime that embezzles aid and oil money and kills its own people.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Thursday 24 June
Chisinau: the real media revolution is underway
In April last year, Moldova made international headlines when its exotically-titled “Twitter Revolution” triggered an election rerun, toppling the Communist party from power after eight long years.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 2 May
Why the ‘war on terror’ lost its bite
Almost exactly 20 years ago, an American president once ridiculed as a “wimp” stood triumphant, having vanquished a Middle Eastern villain.
Affairs / Government
Americas Briefing
A report on Canada's upcoming election, the referendum in Ecuador and the new high-speed internet connection between Cuba and Venezuela.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 9 July
Making history and writing the future
Last month, I was standing in a queue at Beirut airport when I got chatting to an Egyptian couple who were in Lebanon for a long weekend to escape the stifling heat in Cairo.
Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Monday 23 May
Death of the super-injunction
The dynamic of unintended consequence is often hilarious, and always instructive. In Britain in the last few weeks, Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs has become the latest public figure to learn the hard way that…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 27 December
Forecast 2011: Britain’s political rollercoaster set to continue
How do you match 2010? For British politics it was the most tumultuous and turbulent year in living memory, defying all manner of clichés and conventional wisdom.
Business / Small Business
Monocolumn
Sunday 7 February
Fancy a brew?
In June 1998, Ichiri Fujiura headed to Baltimore, Maryland, with a handful of beers that he’d made in his kitchen.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 21 October
The second round of the mayoral elections
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.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 11 March
Remember what’s important
Two years after Japan’s largest post-war disaster its recovery has been astonishing but politics is slowing progress.