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A look inside Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter: A community of political transients
Embassy staff are used to postings around the world but in Riyadh, they live alongside government ministers in the Diplomatic Quarter district. We pass the security checkpoints to meet its residents.
Is Romania the next tech frontier? Inside Iași’s rise as a hub for young talent
We put the spotlight on Romania’s third-largest city in the midst of a tech renaissance.
The reality behind Japan’s “vanishing phenomenon” and how people disappear
Global media’s obsession with sensationalising Japan into its eccentric, often stereotyped image is reductive. The much-discussed yet decades-old phenomenon of ‘johatsu’ is just one example.
Greenland in focus: Monocle’s trip to Nuuk in pictures
Our team arrived in Nuuk on 19 January, as tensions between the US and its Nato allies reached seismic levels. Here’s a selection of images from their five days in the Greenland capital.
What we can learn from the UK’s shift away from coal-fired power
There’s still a long way to go before fossil fuels are a thing of the past but change is possible – and recent transitions towards green energy have seeded fresh optimism.
Gulf states project an image of unity but a proxy media war tells a different story
Under normal circumstances, the Gulf monarchies are at pains to project an image of calm, cohesion and predictability. Disputes are managed quietly and disagreements smoothed over with summitry and ritual declarations of unity. But…
Amid the chaos unleashed by Trump, Greenlanders are taking a pragmatic approach
When Monocle Radio’s team arrived in Nuuk last Monday, anything seemed possible. Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, was warning his fellow citizens to prepare for the possibility of invasion by the US. Denmark, of…
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.
