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The Global Countdown - The United Kingdom

21 October 2021

Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco looks at the top songs in the UK this week.

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The Bulletin with UBS - United kingdom?

17 May 2015

Following the Conservatives’ unlikely election triumph we take the temperature in Westminster and ask if this could spell a European Union exit for the United Kingdom.

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The Global Countdown - United Kingdom

24 August 2023

Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco takes a look at the top hits in the British charts this week.

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The Foreign Desk - The United Kingdom: United no more?

5 December 2020

After Brexit, coronavirus and other shocks, how long can the United Kingdom hold together? Is momentum for Scottish independence accelerating? Where is Wales heading? Might Northern Ireland want to join the Republic of…

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The flight watch

17 February 2008

When it comes to protecting the world's travel hubs, police are increasingly relying on some unlikely weapons; Matthew the plane-spotter and Graham the farmer. Monocle reports from Gatwick on the very local response to te…

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Law of the jungle

17 January 2019

For ClientEarth’s CEO, the environment would be all the poorer without a trusted team of lawyers and strategists.

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A Little Push

17 October 2012

The Behavioural Insights Team – otherwise known as the Nudge Unit – is improving public services in the UK via clever tweaks of policy and subtle changes to the delivery of information. Monocle investigates the art of…

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Make it better

17 February 2011

For over 50 years Kenneth Grange has designed many of the UK’s most recognisable things, from postboxes to taxis. With the UK design and manufacturing industry in decline, he tells Monocle what he thinks needs fixing.

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Q&A Antonio Patriota

17 September 2012

Monocle sits down with Brazil’s foreign minister Antonio Patriota in London to ask what he’s doing to take his country’s brand beyond its image of sun and soccer.

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Observation

17 May 2012

This festival season Monocle is throwing its own summer bash with ourfavourite nations taking part. Naturally, Midori House is abuzz with some very special ideas, some of which may never leave this page. But if you do own…

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Observation

20 October 2011

The laptop ambassador may be a moneysaving concept but it will always be trumped by a diplomat with a budget and an embassy, says Tyler Brûlé.

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Field trip

17 May 2009

The news is full of huge stimulus packages but some smaller initiatives have gone beneath the radar. In Japan, a scheme to encourage jobless young citizens to move from town to work the land could be a global template for…

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Culture

17 October 2012

The latest books, films and music from around the world, plus our culture editor's monthly musings.

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Margaret Howell

18 March 2010

For her last meal, British fashion designer Margaret Howell would choose a venue and menu as simple and quintessentially English as her eponymous clothing brand – a picnic on a windswept beach near her weekend home on the…

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Written diagnosis

17 October 2012

‘The Lancet’ has been in existence for 189 years and is considered an institution in the publishing industry. Monocle meets the staff of the British medical weekly that is always authoritative and occasionally controversial…

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Ready, set, go

17 May 2012

Preparations from the seating to the flags and the turf are nearly complete for this summer’s London Olympics. We look at the companies that have won the contracts to supply the Games.