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Hear our take on the news and enjoy sharp reporting on the big stories every weekday. Tune in as our guest panel reviews the day’s events in Europe, follows developing stories in the Americas and welcomes early risers in Asia and Australasia. Plus: reports and analysis from Monocle’s correspondents and bureaux around the world. Nominated for ‘Best Daily Podcast’ in the 2022 British Podcast Awards.

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South Korea’s ongoing political crisis and does the ‘Time Magazine’ person of the year really matter?: The latest in South Korea’s ongoing political crisis and the implications for its soft-power prowess. Also in the programme: the UK’s changing attitudes toward relations with the European Union and Australia proposes new taxes on tech giants to pay for news coverage. Plus: does the ‘Time Magazine’ person of the year really matter?

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2923	12 Dec 2024 37 min	South Korea’s ongoing political crisis and does the ‘Time Magazine’ person of the year really matter? The latest in South Korea’s ongoing political crisis and the implications for its soft-power prowess. Also in the programme: the UK’s changing attitudes toward relations with the European Union and Australia proposes new taxes on tech giants to pay for news coverage. Plus: does the ‘Time Magazine’ person of the year really matter?	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2922	11 Dec 2024 38 min	Scholz paves the way for an early election in Germany Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has requested a confidence vote, setting in motion the process for the country to hold early elections next year. What happened to the EU's powerhouse? Plus: the fate of Syrian refugees in Europe, Maori tribes' plea to King Charles III and how the way we watch television is changing..	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2921	10 Dec 2024 37 min	How to deal with Syria’s new power Tessa Szyszkowitz and Ben Kelly discuss how Western governments might deal with a Syria newly led by a former terrorist group, the controversy over the murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, the 'Los Angeles Times' bias debate and our favourite online searches of the year. Plus: why young Croatians are leaving and how to keep them.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2920	9 Dec 2024 39 min	How will the Assad regime’s collapse affect Europe? Robin Brant and Giorgia Scaturro discuss how the collapse of the Assad regime will affect Europe. Also in the programme: a migration solution dubbed the ‘Musk bill‘, tensions over an EU-Mercosur trade deal and whether Italy’s trains are the best in Europe. Plus: Karthik Ramanna on his book 'The Age of Outrage'.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2919	6 Dec 2024 36 min	Romania’s presidential election gets cancelled and Mercer’s ranking of the best expat cities We are joined by Bucharest-based journalist Alison Mutler as Romania’s top court annuls the results of the first round of its presidential election. Also in the programme, we unpack Mercer’s ranking of the best and worst cities in the world for expats to live. Plus: Andrew Mueller with ‘What We Learned’ and we hear from Janine Marshall of London’s One Aldwych at the International Luxury Travel Market in Cannes.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2918	5 Dec 2024 35 min	When parliament takes charge Guests Latika Burke and Theo Usherwood join Andrew Mueller to discuss the power of parliament. First, we head to France, where lawmakers passed a no-confidence motion to oust prime minister Michel Barnier, and then, South Korea, where MPs vetoed martial law to stop the president from taking over. Also on the programme: UK prime minister Keir Starmer launches a plan for change. Plus: our team in Cannes reports from the International Luxury Travel Market as they meet the co-founder of Fora, Henley Vazquez.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2917	4 Dec 2024 37 min	Can Russia afford another war in Syria? Reports suggest that the recent rebel advance in Syria is still on the march. Will Russia have the resources to protect its interests in the nation? Also in the programme: the most recent trade dispute between the US and China over semiconductor restrictions. Plus: France and Saudi Arabia try their hand at resolving the war in Israel and Palestine. Then: Italy bans Airbnb self check-ins.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2916	3 Dec 2024 38 min	South Korea’s president declares emergency martial law We get the latest from John Everard as South Korea’s president, Yook Suk Yeol, declares martial law after accusing anti-state elements of sympathising with North Korea. Also in the programme, Ukraine is high on the agenda as Nato foreign ministers meet in Brussels. But is an invitation likely? Plus: protests in Georgia continue for a fifth day and artificial intelligence in advertising.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2915	2 Dec 2024 38 min	President Biden issues a pardon for his son and France’s government on the brink of collapse We unpack the latest as President Biden issues a ‘full and unconditional’ pardon for the charges facing his son, Hunter Biden. Also in the programme, France’s fragile government teeters on the brink of collapse following Michel Barnier pushes his social security budget past parliament, without consulting MPs and the effect of a Trump presidency for Ireland. Plus: As public service complaints in England soar, we ask whether things are getting worse or do we just moan more?	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2912	29 Nov 2024 37 min	Georgian protesters take to the streets and a documentary on the Taliban Protesters clash with police in Georgia after the government’s decision to pull out of EU accession talks. Then: we meet director Ibrahim Nash’at to talk about his new documentary, ‘Hollywoodgate’, which follows the Taliban’s recapture of Kabul. Plus: ‘What We Learned’ this week, a look at Zegna with Monocle’s fashion director, Natalie Theodosi, and a look ahead to the International Luxury Travel Market in Cannes.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2911	28 Nov 2024 35 min	Is the EU readying for a reset of relations with the UK? UK prime minister Keir Starmer has been invited to meet with EU leaders next year. Is this the beginning of a reset of relations with the bloc? Our guests Aliona Hlivco and Michael Binyon discuss this and other topics including the massive attack which has damaged Ukraine’s power network, the odds of Michel Barnier’s government surviving in France and why South Australia has decided to ban political donations and gifts to MPs.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2910	27 Nov 2024 34 min	What does an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire mean for Gaza? We unpack the latest as the fresh ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah takes hold and discuss what this will mean for the conflict in Gaza. Also in the programme, a police report shows that Brazil’s former president was aware of a plot to stage a coup in January 2023. Plus: Donald Trump’s threats of punitive tariffs against China and we ask whether singing should ever be allowed in the cinema?	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2909	26 Nov 2024 39 min	How will history judge Angela Merkel? We discuss tensions in Pakistan as Imran Khan’s supporters reach Islamabad and demand his release. Then: Russia calls on the US to help rebuild Afghanistan as Moscow seeks stronger ties with the Taliban. Plus: we reflect on Angela Merkel’s legacy and the release of her autobiography, ‘Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2908	25 Nov 2024 39 min	Is the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire for real? Israel and Lebanon agree to a ceasefire in principle but could it still collapse over the details? Our panel of Yossi Mekelberg and Rebecca Tinsley also discusses Cop29, the extension of the EU’s Schengen zone and why Germans take so many sick days. Plus: Keir Giles on his new book, ‘Who Will Defend Europe?’	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
2905	22 Nov 2024 36 min	Trump’s cabinet takes shape and Brazil’s former president is charged with plotting a coup Simon Marks joins with the latest from Washington as president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet begins to take shape. Also in the programme: Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco on the impact of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, being charged with plotting a coup d’etat. Then: we flick through the latest issue of ‘Monocle: The Entrepreneurs’ with Tomos Lewis and speak to the American political scientist, Oriana Skylar Mastro, about her new book ‘Upstart: How China Became a Great Power’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

Affairs / Podcast

The Monocle Daily

Latest episode

Latest episodes

South Korea’s ongoing political crisis and does the ‘Time Magazine’ person of the year really matter?

Scholz paves the way for an early election in Germany

How to deal with Syria’s new power

How will the Assad regime’s collapse affect Europe?

Romania’s presidential election gets cancelled and Mercer’s ranking of the best expat cities

When parliament takes charge

Can Russia afford another war in Syria?

South Korea’s president declares emergency martial law

President Biden issues a pardon for his son and France’s government on the brink of collapse

Georgian protesters take to the streets and a documentary on the Taliban

Is the EU readying for a reset of relations with the UK?

What does an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire mean for Gaza?

How will history judge Angela Merkel?

Is the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire for real?

Trump’s cabinet takes shape and Brazil’s former president is charged with plotting a coup