Wednesday 5 May
Three weeks ago, the ascent of the Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats seemed like the relief Britain needed from a tiresome tug-of-war between the Conservative’s David Cameron and the Labour prime minister Gordon Brown. But as…
How Sarkozy wings it in Me and My Motorcade, plus Luxembourg goes to the polls and bar room blues hit the UK.
Sticky situations in Bashkortostsan, the height of anxiety in Seville, and election excitement in Albania.
Tuesday 13 November
Republicans are not the only politicians desperately trying to work out what Barack Obama’s re-election means for their future electoral prospects: party leaders across Europe are also searching for clues and nowhere is…
This week Tyler Brûlé and the team hear the reaction to the UK general elections from the editorial floor of The Independent newspaper with its editor in chief, Simon Kelner.
For our latest installment we get a foreign correspondent's take on the upcoming UK general elections from Der Spiegel's man in London, Marco Evers.
We ask whether Hugo Chavez could he be re-elected in October, discuss whether Iran/UK relations will ever recover, and look at Brazil’s nuclear submarine industry.
Why the UK’s coalition government is struggling, an Athens entrepreneur’s view of the recent Greek elections, and we discuss France’s new first lady.
Where the Italian elections might be headed now with Professor John Foot and former editor of The Economist, Bill Emmott, we check in with David Phelan at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and look at the UK’s high…
As the UK starts gearing up for parliamentary elections, the Monocle Weekly examines the political branding tactics being used to win votes with Ivor Gaber, professor of political campaigning at City University, London.
Steve Bloomfield sits down with Bloomberg TV's Francine Lacqua live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, we get a view on UK-EU relations from immigration judge and expert in European Law, Dan Wilsher, and get the latest…
Sunday 9 May
It was “disgraceful”, harrumphed David Dimbleby, the grand old man of British television election coverage, as news emerged of voters turned away from polling booths across Britain.
Wednesday 4 August
On 28 November, the perpetually beleaguered and misruled Caribbean nation of Haiti will choose a new president.
Monday 17 January
Since1973, British governments have been trying, and largely failing, to persuade British people to regard the European project with sentiments other than indifference and contempt.
Saturday 28 April
There’s a wedding happening today, apparently.
Monday 25 February
There are echoes of 1997 after street protests last week brought down the government in Sofia. But this time around, will anything actually change?
Thursday 13 December
It’s a pretty safe assumption that subscribers to fashion news sources aren’t signed up in order to be kept abreast of the latest developments in American foreign policy. So, last week, when the word “ambassador” was thrown…
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.
Wednesday 26 October
This week’s Scottish National Party conference may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom.
Tuesday 6 March
Here’s one to consider while you thump the treadmill, commute to work or speed along at 38,000 feet – when is a state no longer a state?
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