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The Globalist, episode 205
Analysis of the global Olympics coverage, we visit a West Bank restaurant celebrating local produce, and get business news from Istanbul.
The Monocle Daily, episode 141
Angela Merkel’s party’s local election defeats, we learn how to stage a street protest in Moscow, and visit the EBACE business aviation fair in Geneva.
Edits / Travel
Monocle travel guide
With our ear constantly to the ground, Monocle introduces concept hotels in Spain and Japan, tailor-made trips to Portugal’s secret beaches, and other small businesses gaining popularity within their local communities.
End Point / Small Business
Observation
For inspiration to start your own business, just take a walk in your local shopping district. That run-down pub or dreary café could be begging to be transformed into your own venture and could spawn a thousand dreams and…
Edits / Luxury
Saint Charles
The popularity of ‘natural’ cosmetics and remedies has burgeoned, and Austria is one of Europe’s top markets. In Vienna a group of friends with a passion for botany and herbal medicine are championing the use of local…
Business / Business Hubs
The hills are alive
Bolzano, capital of South Tyrol, is experiencing a business boom quite beyond traditional tourism. Local initiatives have seen hi-tech start-ups soar in what is now the richest province in Italy. Is this Europe’s Boulder…
Affairs / Craft
Happy new world
As Monocle notches up two years, we take a look back at where we started and unveil some subtle tweaks to our brand for volume 03. We’ve always celebrated small businesses that manufacture at home and in an ever-more hom…
Business / Travel
Hotel Nimb
Recently reopened in Copenhagen's Tivoli gardens, Nimb has provided the city with a badly needed asset - an outstanding hotel. Furnished with the best, locally sourced materials and bespoke Danish designs, the family-run…
The Monocle Weekly, episode 6
This week Lord Mandelson, British secretary of state for business, enterprise & regulatory reform, is in the studio to share his views on how budding entrepreneurs should ride the waves of the recession. We're also…
Business / Media
Monocolumn
Monday 31 May
Crowdsourcing the news
As traditional news media outlets fret over their business models, there’s no shortage of upstarts hot-housing the future of journalism online.
Business / Neighbourhood Business
Monocolumn
Thursday 19 May
NYC series – A new phase in the Harlem renaissance
There are few neighbourhoods that are as quintessentially New York as Harlem. Stretching from the top of Central Park all the way up to 155th Street, the area’s cultural diversity and history of boom and bust have led to…
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Tuesday 9 August
UK Riots Part 2: Learn to love your high street
As the London riots rolled into their third day, businesses across the capital were shutting up shop.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 6 November
Hurricane Sandy and a wind-up radio
One week ago, life in Manhattan was very different from what it is today. There were no rumbling subterranean subway sounds nor beeping taxi cabs.
Business / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 15 February
Meet, drinks and the ferry
Be it a friend, a business contact or both, meeting face-to-face helps create stronger ties.
Design / Retail
Monocolumn
Saturday 25 December
Forecast 2011: Competing to be the fairest of them all
There were more than 70 design fairs or festivals held around the world in 2010. Given that they last on average five days, that means you could feasibly spend the entire year attending one.
Culture / Sport
Monocolumn
Friday 8 February
Going downhill fast
The prospect of next year's Winter Games in Sochi should be creating nothing but excitement; instead it's attracting criticism for alleged human-rights transgressions. What's happened to the notion of an Olympic spirit?
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Friday 17 December
Change for the world’s second least populous country
Outside of Vatican City, Niue is the world’s least populous country, a self-governing Pacific nation with a headcount comparable to that of a large high school.
Edits / Travel
Monocolumn
Monday 14 May
Don’t call me a tourist
Does anyone really like being called a tourist? A traveller, a visitor or even a foreigner perhaps but never a tourist.
Business / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Sunday 1 August
The big property squeeze
Land in Hong Kong is scarce – nearly 6,500 people are crammed into every square kilometre – and big business.