The Monocle Daily, episode 234
Why Benghazi’s police are refusing to work, we learn the reasons behind the recent riot at Folsom prison, and discuss arguably the world’s finest chocolate.
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The Monocle Daily, episode 217
News from the Republican convention in Florida, we discuss recent violence in Mombasa, and ask a former police chief why US officers carry military gear.
The Globalist, episode 190
Shashank Joshi on the day’s headlines, we do the business in Johannesburg with Peter Bruce, and Lars Bevanger assesses Norwegian police after the Utøya massacre.
Edits / Defence
Expo 56: High-water mark
Japan’s territorial waters are vast and volatile, home to some of the most disputed islands in east asia. the Japan coast guard is tasked with policing the area. Monocle climbed aboard to see how they do it.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 17 July
Sayonara nuclear power
The police said there were 75,000 people; the organisers said the figure was closer to 170,000. Either way, tens of thousands of people gathered in Tokyo to express their opposition to nuclear power.
Affairs / Government
Africa/Middle East Briefing
We give Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni the once over for this issue's Style Leader, plus Uganda's police chief goes on a "fat attack".
Affairs / Politics
Americas Briefing
A Style Leader special, looking at the sartorial statements of three US election Republican hopefuls, plus cycling in Buenos Aires and policing in Peru.
The Globalist, episode 298
A profile of John Kerry – the man expected to become the next US Secretary of State, we look into whether the creation of a new Mexican police force will help tackle cartel crime, and our man in Milan, Ivan Carvhalho, joins…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 10 August
UK Riots Part 2: Do French and British societies suffer the same social ills?
A youth from a segregated area dies as the result of a police chase, leading to widespread, violent riots: Paris in 2005, London in 2011 – two similar scenarios, both highlighting a social rather than ethnic malaise.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 3 August
Water fight incurs the wrath of the Islamic Revolution
Tehran’s chief of police, Hossein Sajednia, boasted on Sunday that the rule breakers had been identified and would be punished for actions that both “opposed Islamic values” and disrupted “social order”.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Thursday 18 February
The plot thickens
The Mossad or not the Mossad – that is the question on everyone’s lips here, following the identification by the police in Dubai of at least seven Israeli citizens who also hold European passports as suspects in the killing…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 16 November
The Boyko Borisov show
The professional CV of the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov does not read like your standard head of government: firefighter, private security company owner, black belt in karate, trainer of the national karate team…
Business
Mexico City
Distrito Federal, the thriving capital, couldn't be more different from the Mexico regularly appearing on the evening news abroad. The city of 21 million remains largely free of the violence that has engulfed too many other…
Resort
Rio de Janeiro
Known for spectacular beaches, carnival, samba and crime, Rio is definitely not dull. The year-round beach weather and friendly, gorgeous locals, the Cariocas, seduce foreigners (literally and figuratively) with all of…
Edits / Travel
Monocle travel guide
In a city known for its preference to raze rather than save, finding an old building among Hong Kong’s gleaming skyscrapers is a challenge. Marvel then at the Tai O Heritage Hotel: housed in a 110-year-old police station…
Culture / Film
Gone shooting
Inspired by footage of police killing a bus hijacker, José Padilha’s ‘Elite Squad’ is the most viewed film in Brazil’s history (thanks to the country’s rampant piracy) and won the 2008 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear.…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 10 August
UK Riots Part 1: Politicians vascillate and hesitate wording a response
Now that much of the dust has settled (not that the scars have healed), a note on the words used in the riot-heat of this week.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Sunday 30 January
Australia’s lawless underbelly surfaces
Crime, for better or worse, is in Australia’s DNA. The country’s famously laid-back residents view their origin as a British penal colony almost as a point of pride, and venerate celebrity toughs such as hitman Mark “Cho…
Affairs / Television
Monocolumn
Friday 14 May
The danger of narco-soaps
Tales of the drug underworld featuring silicone-enhanced women and handsome drug kingpins are the staple of Colombia’s hit soap shows.