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Making connections

28 December 2024

From luxury hotels embracing local traditions to a Swedish aerospace company’s game-changing hybrid electric aircraft, we round up the key comings and goings in transport, hospitality and more.

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

12 December 2024

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…

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The Globalist - South Korea declares martial law

4 December 2024

We get the latest from Seoul as South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, declares emergency martial law. Then: Nato leaders gather in Brussels at a tense time for geopolitics, the emir of Qatar boosts his nation’s soft power…

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Narrative threads

4 December 2024

Film and fashion have long been co-stars but several European luxury houses are now moving into the producer’s chair. Launching their own filmmaking divisions, these labels are not only spotlighting their clothes on-screen…

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Laser focus

4 December 2024

With drone warfare proliferating across the globe, one company in Australia has excelled at creating anti-drone systems – saving lives every day while learning from soldiers on Ukraine’s front line.

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On top of the world

4 December 2024

From innovative materials and artists and designers on the up to Cuba’s quiet transport revolution and Armenia’s garage entrepreneurs, we bring you interviews and reportage that will help to set the agenda for the year to…

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Quality time

28 November 2024

As storied Italian brand Loro Piana celebrates its centenary, its CEO, Damien Bertrand, is doubling down on its long-held commitment to luxury.

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Dancing in the dark

28 November 2024

As the nights draw in – at least, in the northern hemisphere – Monocle Radio’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco picks 50 songs to accompany the season. From cosy evenings spent indoors to the perfect playlist with which to welcome…

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Why Colaba is the jewel of India’s second city

28 November 2024

In the first of a new series on urban enclaves – places that have their own powerful dynamism – we head to a former colonial redoubt in Mumbai (or still Bombay to locals).

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The Agenda: Affairs

28 November 2024

The importance of soft power, Algeria’s chocolate-hazelnut spread and France and Italy’s spat.

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Home Truths: 15 musings on the meaning of home

24 October 2024

The places we live in are never just bricks and mortar or glass and steel; they also represent chapters of lives and places of sanctuary on the way. We ask 15 thinkers we admire – diplomats, designers, authors and a literal…

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How to do the soft-power shuffle, Brazilian style

24 October 2024

Brazil’s diplomats are busy restoring the nation’s image after the Jair Bolsonaro years. We hitch a ride with their man in London.

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What you've missed. Autumn 2024.

26 September 2024

You’ve perused the trade press, thumbed the newspapers and kept your ear to the ground, we know, but with so much happening, even the best of us overlook things. That’s why our journalists have scoured mountains, rivieras…

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