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Shop idols
Sometimes it takes just one retailer to unite an entire neighbourhood and restore an old-fashioned sense of community. Here are five doing just that. Things to improve your life
Full speed ahead
Later this year, Barack Obama's transportation secretary Ray LaHood will begin allocating $8 billion to emerging American train systems, with another $5 billion to come over the next five years - the first time…
Q&A: Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
Estonia is a modern, hi-tech nation facing some old-fashioned problems. In his private offices in Stenbock House in Tallinn, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip talks to editor Andrew Tuck about having Russia as a neighbour,…
Q&A: Alain de Botton
From the art of travel to the architecture of happiness, author Alain de Botton's writings filter everyday life through a philosophical lens. Monocle Editor-in-Chief Tyler Brûlé met with Alain de Botton at his London…
Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
In The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton reveals why we need an art that can proclaim the intelligence, peculiarity, beauty and horror of the workplace and, not least, its extraordinary claim…
Craft Punk – Milan
This year Design Miami staged an installation at Salone del Mobile that created a public atelier for emerging designers to make and show their work. Monocle's design editor Sarah Balmond looks at CRAFT PUNK's…
The Danish Navy on the hunt
Like latter-day Vikings, the Danish Navy tours the treacherous Gulf of Aden hunting for Somali pirates. Monocle goes aboard HDMS Absalon to join the fit-for-action forces as they deal carefully with these dangerous and…
Taiwan hit factory
Despite years of turbulence between Taiwan and China, this island's pop culture leaves the mainland standing. From idols to protest singers via television talent shows, Taipei pop is the country's new heavy industry.
Q & A: Anders Fogh Rasmussen
"Save the world" is just one of the items on the "to do" list of Denmark's prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, this year. And he might just do it. This year he will host…
New designs on diplomacy
Post September 11 every embassy was built as a bunker ready to repel all comers. But now, from Kathmandu to Harare, architects are reinventing the mission as a national calling card. Robert Bound reports.
