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What Parisians hate (almost) more than anything
It is rarely mentioned in guidebooks but dominates everyday life. It ruins appliances, dulls hair and inspires an entire economy of defensive measures. An expat learns why Paris takes certain domestic threats seriously.
‘Greenland chooses the Greenland we know today, as part of the Kingdom of Denmark.’ The country’s PM responds to Trump
Greenland’s 34-year-old prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has had a crash course in international diplomacy and media relations, emerging from it a little battered but with his head held high.
We can’t keep building houses to solve the housing crisis, say two leading architects
Is architecture broken? It will be until the architects become activists.
Mary L Trump and how power destroys a nation
An illuminating conversation with Donald Trump’s niece, Mary L Trump, about growing up in the Trump family, her early relationship with the president and why she has written a revealing new memoir.
New South Wales unveils a smart approach to affordable architectural designs amid Sydney’s housing challenge
The Australian Dream, to own one’s own quarter-acre block complete with picturebook home, verdant garden and Hills Hoist rotary clothesline, has shifted in recent years. But the desire to own one’s own residence, their…
From the ground in Davos: Bigger budgets and bigger deals
A look inside the record crowds, rising geo-economic uncertainty and US-centric diplomacy at The World Economic Forum.
‘I would feel safer to stay with Denmark’: Has the Greenland crisis brought the territory closer to Copenhagen?
On the streets of Nuuk, talk of independence has been tempered by Trump’s ongoing threats.
Playing God in Davos: Why the US is putting faith centre stage
Things are getting icy in Davos. Despite only touching down at the World Economic Forum (WEF) later this morning, US president Donald Trump has been dominating discussions along the Promenade all week. Shortly before…
Opinion
Trump has repeatedly shown that he will bend in the face of decisive opposition. It’s time to stand firm
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Touching down in Nuuk, ground zero for the world’s most absurd crisis
An improbable diplomatic situation has turned Greenland into the world’s most unlikely flashpoint. Monocle is in Nuuk to see what’s really happening on the ground.
