Andrew Mueller
Defence
Army recruitment tactics in France, Djibouti’s new friendship with China, Israel’s tank innovation and North Korea’s escalating missile tests.
Home sweet home
Considered bland and suburban by most, the Home Counties boast a bubbling undercurrent of creativity. UK band Saint Etienne is now singing their praises
Edi Rama
The prime minister of Albania sits down in his office dining room to talk politics, relationships and his dream dinner.
Defence
Finland goes shopping, Indonesia gets a new frigate, Colombia looks to plug a few post-Farc voids and Singapore finds a new place to park its F15s.
Universal tongue
On her new album, Beirut-born Arabic singer Yasmine Hamdan continues to give (beautiful) voice to common feeling.
Small story
As demand grows, city living spaces are getting more compact. But there are opportunities to be had by embracing micro homes.
Architecture
A fix for an urban-planning disaster in Sydney and a Barcelona architecture firm on the up.
Between the lines
Matters of national and international security are best left to the professionals. But who are they and where do they get their intelligence? From fact to fiction, we reveal our sources.
