Design / Fashion
Raising the bar
With the nights drawing in, there’s nothing more appealing than hunkering down in a cosy old Berlin bar. Monocle finds a seat to showcase our autumn/winter wear for indoors and out.
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Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Thursday 27 May
Too blasé in face of rabid North?
“I don’t see the possibility of serious developments in the market,” Seoul’s top financial regulator, Kim Jong-chang, told reporters when asked if growing tensions following the sinking of a South Korean warship would…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 11 January
The American protester – hero or fool?
A would-be Christian martyr’s infiltration of the world’s most forbidding state on Christmas Day has both frustrated and inspired fellow North Korea activists.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 4 March
Maghreb focus: Time to pull together
One of the sparks for the political unrest that has erupted across North Africa was frustration over the lack of jobs and the rising price of food
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Monday 7 February
The Arctic’s embattled ‘white giant’
As sea ice continues to disappear off the Alaskan coast, its population of polar bears is increasingly under threat.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 23 July
Retirement for dictators isn’t easy
In the Monocle Guide to Being a Dictator the final chapter is devoted to the one thing that all autocrats would rather not think about but most will have to one day face: what to do when the game is up.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 31 March
Japan focus: Returning to Tokyo
At first it feels reassuringly familiar. The sun is shining in Shibuya, salarymen are rushing around and teens are chatting as they make their way across the famous crossing. But there are telling signs of change.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 27 February
Maghreb focus: Italy’s interests in Libya
Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody crackdown against protesters challenging his 42-year rule has received sharp rebuke from world leaders.
Edits / Aviation
Monocolumn
Monday 16 April
Why America needs a new flight plan
When Francis Scott Key penned the words to the “Star Spangled Banner” and coined his country as “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, he certainly hadn’t envisaged how his fellow Americans would be travelling…
Affairs / Travel
Monocolumn
Thursday 28 October
Azerbaijan puts the squeeze on visas
A couple of months back, when your correspondent visited Azerbaijan on assignment for Monocle, entry procedures at Baku’s Heydar Aliyev airport were somewhat bizarre.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 23 March
The Touareg forced to fight for Gaddafi
If Gaddafi goes, then the Touareg will be in great danger
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 10 March
A Ugandan protest and an unworried president
Uganda’s elite red beret troops weren’t taking any chances.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 19 September
Death camp tourism with David Irving
While most Poles have already returned from their favourite summer destinations in Greece and Egypt, their country is about to host perhaps one of the most bizarre tours in the history of tourism.
Edits / Travel
Monocolumn
Monday 10 December
Lucky dips
Wherever I fly to, I like to swim at. Not just because it’s a great way to slough off the cramped confines and arid air of a long haul but also because it gives me a chance to see a little more of a society. A dip is also…
Culture / Sport
Monocolumn
Tuesday 29 January
Pitch battle
Everybody loves a sporting giant-slayer but when it comes to team branding, the game is just as hard-fought.
Affairs / Food & Drink
Eat and be wary
Strung out across Southeast Asia is a chain of restaurants where doll-like North Korean waitresses sing to diners as they sample the country’s cuisine (well, what’s left of it). Is it a benign culinary business foray or…
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Friday 11 February
Egypt’s military might up there with the big boys – for now
Of the more arresting images beamed around the world from the streets surrounding Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square was footage of protesters facing stationed tanks.
Design / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 30 April
City makeover for the Expo
Shanghai has gone green in the lead up to the opening of the World Expo today.
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.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 5 October
Weekend agenda, 6/7 October
This weekend check out some photography in Istanbul, attend the New Yorker festival in the Big Apple, and enjoy the new album by Swedish pop singer Taken By Trees.