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The Monocle Daily - Thursday 26 January

26 January 2023

Isabel Hilton and Sir William Patey discuss Washington’s new ambassador in Moscow, Taliban plans to loosen a ban on female NGO staff, and ask if life is back to normal in China. Plus: why Brazil loves unusual names and…

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Urbanism

19 January 2023

Sydney’s most important cultural venue since the Opera House, an Álvaro Siza watch and designer Ron Arad’s approach to work.

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The Opener

19 January 2023

Deceptive dinosaurs and desperate Australian estate agents. Plus: why some of Jair Bolsonaro’s fans are appealing to a higher authority.

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Looking forwards

17 November 2022

Predicting the future is a notoriously tricky game, yet past experiences and current concerns can provide important clues – whether that is charting the success of bold urbanism, learning lessons from cultural controversies…

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Double vision

20 October 2022

Sydney Modern will be the city’s largest cultural opening since the its iconic opera house. We meet the duo behind the design.

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Back on track

20 October 2022

The rail industry is abuzz with chatter of a golden age of trains. Monocle takes a prime seat at trade fair Innotrans to gauge the direction of travel.

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Meet the Writers - Monocle Reads: ‘Takeaway’

13 October 2022

Angela Hui is a writer and award-winning journalist from south Wales, reporting on culture, food justice and the hospitality industry. She is also the associate editor of ‘Sandwich Magazine’. She sits down with Georgina…

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Should Australia open its borders?

15 September 2022

Australia’s pandemic has been marked by robust early success and a restrictive, prolonged isolation that comes from resting on those laurels. Our expert Aussie panel discusses what both reveal about its national character…

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Welsh Lavender hand cream

Developed to nourish hard working hands, this hand cream is made with lavender oil distilled in the hills of mid-Wales.

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Quality of Life Survey: part one

16 June 2022

Monocle’s 15th annual Quality of Life Survey charts 25 outposts on the up and ranks the best places to put down roots. Did your city make the cut?

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Russia’s Nuremberg

19 May 2022

Will Russian defendants ever stand trial for war crimes in Ukraine?

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Meet the Writers - John L Williams

27 March 2022

John L Williams is a biographer and novelist, as well as the co-founder and director of a literary and arts festival in Wales. Earlier in his career he was a music writer, working for publications such as ‘The Face’, ‘GQ’…

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Wool wash

Established by husband-and-wife team Nancy and Bill Durham, Farmer’s Welsh Lavender draws inspiration from its namesake country’s flower farms.

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Culture

24 February 2022

Auction houses bid on Hong Kong, a gallery in Mexico City and Eurovision goes stateside.

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Under the umbrella

27 January 2022

As cultural industries faltered in a time of pandemic, two entrepreneurs identified an opportunity. With their new holding company, Cultureworks, they plan to offer a new global platform for creativity – and reshape the…

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Urbanism and design: Global

2 November 2021

From Turin’s sky-high new development to a Tokyo architecture exhibition.