The Late Edition
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353
What’s gone wrong for Peer Steinbrück’s SDP? We get a Kenyan election update, and meet the writer of a new biography of Diana Vreeland.
352
We find out how Canada, the US, Denmark and the UK view immigration, discuss a new book – “Lunch with the FT”, and see if art really can be affordable.
351
We look around the world to see how Hugo Chávez is being remembered internationally, find out about a swarm of locusts heading to Israel, and see why South Korea is buying up the world’s gold.
350
Why the UK is tightening its visa rules for Brazilians, we ask if China’s leadership is turning a corner, and check in with the Geneva Motor Show.
349
Will Switzerland’s vote to curb executive pay turn businesses away from the country? We also talk about the science behind our fear of monsters and find out why Condé Nast is spending $20m (€15.3m) on e-commerce.
348
The latest on an increasingly frail Hugo Chávez, we meet Kenyan artist Boniface Mwangi ahead of Monday’s presidential election, and assess the week that was – with Tyler Brûlé and Andrew Tuck.
347
We find out why it’s a bad day to be a banker in Europe with The Independent’s Ben Chu, explore what the Arab Spring means for viewing habits across the Middle East, and find out how global food giants might be feeding us a lie.
346
We discuss Turkey’s relationship with Kurdish rebels with our man in Istanbul, ask how you move a house – brick-by-brick – from New Jersey to Italy, and learn why the music industry has seen its first growth in sales since 1999.
345
We discuss the Colombian coffee strikers with Mauricio Galindo – head of the International Coffee Organization, ask if pan-European TV stations could unite Europe, and learn why South Africans are working out outdoors.
344
Robert Fox joins Monocle’s foreign editor Steve Bloomfield to assess new evidence that local Afghan security forces are corrupt and abusive. Author and journalist Rory Carroll reflects on Venezuela under Hugo Chávez, and we find out what changes are afoot in Thailand’s sanitation system.
