Colin Nagy
Ukraine’s most valuable export? Drone-fighting know-how
Ukraine has moved with velocity from being a battlefield casualty of drone technology to being a major tutor in the global campaign against it.
How South by Southwest became Austin’s soft-power showpiece
Austin is now globally renowned but it wasn’t always that way. Here’s how the city’s famous South by Southwest festival helped the city to rebrand and revitalise.
AI hasn’t created a new problem for publishing – it has simply clarified an old one
Publishers are fretting over the impact that artificial intelligence will have on business. But the problem posed by AI is not new. Being selective about audience is the key.
Hop aboard Trans Maldivian Airways, the operator turning transit into an elevated experience
The seaplane terminal at Malé in the Maldives is a ballet of improbable logistics. Workers shuffle onto De Havilland Twin Otters bound for far-flung atolls. Honeymooners board aircraft branded with Soneva livery or Four…
How big-sky thinking is spurring a ranch revival out West
The American West has held the US in a kind of cultural trance of late. It’s visible in the collections on runways, the perverse popularity of rodeos and the resurrection of heritage bootmakers but,…
In a fast-moving Gulf, Oman’s urbanism experiment is betting on slow and steady
Arriving in Muscat, you’re struck by the absence of construction cranes and the sense of calm that hangs in the air. In a region where perpetual transformation has become the default, Oman’s relative stillness…
Far from a closed book, Tokyo’s T-Site matters more than ever
I’m generally averse to recommendation lists. Every city has been Google Doc’d and mapped to death, especially Tokyo. And yet there’s one longtime Monocle favourite where I always send visitors: Tsutaya Books in Daikanyama,…
Biometric borders are in danger of turning seamless scheme into unseemly scenes
After years of delays, the EU began quietly phasing in its new Entry/Exit System a few days ago. The bloc’s long-delayed biometric border system aims to replace passport stamps with seamless automation and some…
What you’ve missed. Autumn 2024.
You’ve perused the trade press, thumbed the newspapers and kept your ear to the ground, we know, but with so much happening, even the best of us overlook things. That’s why our journalists have…
DJ Harvey’s recipe for the perfect nightclub
Veteran party-starter DJ Harvey has created the perfect nightclub. All it takes is a shower in the booth and 2.6 million holes in the wall.
