Thursday 3 May
In the ancient poem Beowulf, the eponymous hero went about the Scandinavian countryside battling dragons and beasts and sharing his bold exploits with all who would listen.
Sunday 11 October
Kenya is welcoming a procession of international visitors this month that indicate both the depths it has fallen to and the heights it could once again reach.
Thursday 25 August
Japanese voters would be forgiven for not remembering who their last prime minister was.
Friday 12 August
Some members of Syria’s opposition movement give their president less than a month before he falls.
Thursday 10 March
Uganda’s elite red beret troops weren’t taking any chances.
Monday 2 April
It must have seemed like rather a good idea at the time.
Tuesday 3 January
If 2011 was all about unexpected changes in leadership, with dictators toppled and autocrats teetering, 2012’s leadership shifts should be a bit more predictable.
Monocle's Africa correspondent Steve Bloomfield and photographer Frédéric Courbet risked imprisonment to go undercover in troubled Zimbabwe, where international journalists are banned. They found a nation on the brink of…
Friday 9 November
It’s been a big week for elections political and ecclesiastical, and a week where chance has been seen as the enemy of the ballot box – except in one time-honoured rite where blind luck rules.
Tuesday 2 October
During the 2004 presidential election campaign John Kerry was described, somewhat implausibly, as the “greatest debater since Cicero”.
Sunday 1 April
Ten days ago, Hong Kong went to the polls to elect its next leader.
Thursday 6 October
On the last stretch of the campaign before Poland’s parliamentary elections, which take place this Sunday, few pundits dare to predict the vote’s outcome, as opinion polls have swung back and forth over the past few weeks…
Tuesday 2 August
Nearly 16 months after the plane crash in western Russia that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński, his wife, eight crew members and 86 political and military officials, a recently published report into the 10 April…
Monday 28 March
Syria has always been considered an island of stability in a sea of Middle Eastern turmoil.
Wednesday 30 March
In a small Lebanese restaurant on London’s Edgware Road two Syrian chefs sat sipping tea as they watched President Bashar al-Assad deliver his first speech since the anti-regime protests began last week.
Wednesday 23 March
If Gaddafi goes, then the Touareg will be in great danger
Friday 4 March
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
Thursday 20 January
If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Georgian capital Tbilisi this year, he might feel somewhat uncomfortable as his motorcade speeds down the main road from the airport to the city centre – it’s called George W Bush Street…
Sunday 17 April
They’d received their summons and were out in force. The stalwarts of the British left-wing movement gathered on Saturday at central London’s Conway Hall for a day of workshops and discussions on Venezuela.
Tuesday 9 November
Silvio Berlusconi’s last-minute decision to pull out of a family values forum in Milan this week came as no surprise after the latest revelations about the Italian leader’s dalliances with under-age girls.
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