Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 23 August
Hair today, prime minister tomorrow
Turkey has nearly a year to go before it holds elections, but one outcome seems certain: the country’s next prime minister will wear a moustache.
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Affairs / Politics
Europe Briefing
What your moustache says about your politics (if your Turskish), why Germany has its eyes on the Eurotunnel and why mint is flavour of the month in Finland.
Design / Fashion
Fashion Briefing
An eyewear boutique in New York with new and vintage frames, nautical jumpers for women and a new menswear store in Stockholm.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 20 February
Why Americans love their northern neighbours
In the playground of the world Canada just got a little bit cooler. It turns out that Americans like us. They really, really like us – more than anyone anywhere.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Tuesday 3 May
How to hide – a lesson from bin Laden
In a world in which anybody with a computer can peer into anyone else’s yard, the long-term fugitive feels like a throwback to an era of pigeon post and pith helmets.
Affairs / Politics
Europe Briefing
What Belarus's autocrat president Aleksandr Lukashenko has in his wardrobe, why a new theme park in Greece is ruffling feathers, and Bulgaria's upcoming elections.
Edits / Retail
Monocolumn
Sunday 5 September
Objets of desire
Fauchon snack shops alongside a Mariage Frères restaurant kitted out with Inga Sempé table lamps and waiters in white bow-tie uniforms – this isn’t the food offering of an upmarket retail emporium but the newly inaugurated…
/ Provenance
National expression
There are many ways for a nation to make a name for itself and build international brand equity. From winning a place on the Olympic podium to positioning itself as a must-stop hub, the options are plentiful, but the res…
Business / Industry
Timber land
Lumberjacks are finding themselves at the forefront of the climate change debate as ‘biomass’ (that’s burning wood chips to you and me) becomes a buzzword for the environmental movement. Monocle visited one of the largest…
Affairs / Politics
Eye on the prize
A strengthening economy and new confidence have made Turkey a diplomatic rising star. And as the revolts play out across the Middle East, everyone is paying court and wanting the ear of the country’s ambitious foreign…
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocle travel guide
Monocle island-hops to the Maldives, visits a Stockholm restaurant with no menu and finds the best coffees from New Zealand to San Francisco.
Culture / Film
Keep it reel
While newspapers and broadcasters pull the plug on budgets for investigative journalism and documentary, Monocle meets Norway’s documentary filmmakers leading the charge to protect films that ask, answer and entertain.
Culture / Music
Culture Briefing
A round of the best books, films and music.
Affairs / Crime
Hunting Ratko
Ratko Mladic is one of the world’s most wanted men. Monocle meets those trying to arrest the Bosnian Serb general so the UN can try him for war crimes and genocide. We also look at the damage his fugitive status is doing…
Business / Society
On the pulse
Medica is the world’s largest healthcare trade fair. This year 4,360 companies displayed the latest must-haves for the 21st-century doctor from souped-up ambulances to rather too realistic anatomical models
Affairs / Emerging Markets
Bank of the Nile
Sudan’s government is accused of aiding a genocide in Darfur and so the West refuses to do business with the regime. So how does this failed state cope? Well, for Khartoum the answer is with ease. With the help of Arab cash…
Affairs / Politics
Banana Republic
Ecuador used to be a loyal ally of the US, but now its new president Rafael Correa is cutting a very different course and even looking to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez for political guidance. *Monocle* travelled there to meet the…
Affairs / Politics
Asia briefing
The semiotics of President Ahmadinejad's wardrobe, plus the high seas of Indonesian piracy.