Steve Bloomfield
Top 25 liveable cities
In our annual Quality of Life survey, we assess cities by their daytime attributes and their nightly traits. Read on to discover our nocturnal metrics and find out where your city ranks.
✕5 Essays
Our wise contributors unravel the riddles at the heart of our cities: what makes them tick, how they can work better and what nocturnal joys lie within.
Top 25 cities, 2016
The ups and downs of our annual global ranking covering the world's most liveable cities – who's in and who's out?
How to make a nation
From diplomacy to government, business to media, how do we create a vibrant nation? To coincide with the publication of “How to Make a Nation: A Monocle Guide”, Steve Bloomfield posed this question to…
São Tomé: blinded by the sun
Monocle's Steve Bloomfield and photographer Zed Nelson travel to São Tomé to report on the corruption and misguided ambition that have been a blight on the fortunes of this tropical African island.
Blinded by the sun
Africa’s island of São Tomé isn’t a paradise lost but an opportunity squandered. Monocle reports on why corruption and misguided ambition blight an otherwise unspoilt landscape, as new development dreams emerge.
Small packages: Villages report
We take a tour of the most innovative and enticing compact communities around the world.
Q&A: Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves
The Estonian president talks (and talks) to us about his fixes for Europe.
