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Big guns

20 October 2011

This year’s DSEi fair in London showed that South Africa is a major arms player.

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The Foreign Desk - Dropping the gun?

24 March 2018

For decades US schools have fallen victim to deadly attacks and nothing has changed. However after one of the more recent and most deadly the mood has changed – and it’s the pupils, not the politicians, who are leading the…

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Smoking gun

12 May 2014

Journalist Jorge Lanata is happiest when he’s taking on those in power. Whether on his TV and radio shows or in his weekly newspaper column, his passionate views frame the national agenda and have made him a celebrity in…

Monocle Minute

Who are the big guns?

5 December 2016

Released every December by the Bonn International Center for Conversion (Bicc) with financial support from Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Global Militarization Index (GMI) measures…

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Drugs, guns and nice sofas

17 May 2007

On millionaires’ row in Herat, elaborate palaces are being built by businessmen who have made fortunes from exploiting the needs of the new Afghanistan – or selling heroin. A heady mix of Iranian, Italian and Gulf influe…

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The Foreign Desk - The US and guns: can anything change?

24 April 2021

One thing that coronavirus didn’t change in the US was the country’s shocking rate of gun deaths: even under widespread lockdowns, mass shootings spiked sharply. But Joe Biden has declared his intention to address a scourge…

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Monocle on Culture - ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

6 June 2022

Tom Cruise is back as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell for another sky-high adventure in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’. Robert Bound is joined by critics Clarisse Loughrey and Simran Hans to ask whether this legacy sequel takes off.

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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 85: American gun laws

4 October 2017

In the aftermath of the attack in Las Vegas, Andrew Mueller asks if anything can make the US change its gun laws.

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Big Shot

19 September 2013

El Casco in the Basque country is a Spanish success story. And despite the difficult economic conditions, it has had the firepower to survive.

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Europe

17 October 2008

Taser guns get the go-ahead in France, and Swedish prisoners get a style makeover.

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The Stack - ‘Garden & Gun’, ‘Americas Quarterly’ and ‘Lodestars Anthology’

25 May 2024

This week on ‘The Stack’, we speak with the editor in chief of ‘Garden & Gun’, a magazine celebrating the American South. We also discuss the Mexican elections with Brian Winter from ‘Americas Quarterly’ and talk to Liz…

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Europe

17 May 2012

What's next for Berlin's Tegel airport, the growing problem of guns in France and windpower goes quiet in Sweden

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Urbanism Forecast

18 November 2010

Cairo's new satellite cities, the migration from Mumbai to Bandra, and Asia's frantic competition to build the world's tallest skyscrapers.

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Europe

1 May 2009

The Uzbek social princess-cum-diplomat who is also a style Leader, clean living in Sweden, Why the Swiss love their guns and Moscow eyes the Vegas lifestyle.

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Business

19 January 2012

The young guns taking the tea world by storm, mobile markets and an eco-friendly super-yacht.

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Killer in Manila

23 February 2017

Under President Duterte, thousands of drug users and dealers have been gunned down. The response from the people of the Philippines? Carry on, please.