The Faster Lane
from Tyler Brûlé
Want to build a European powerhouse? Think more like Zara than Zuckerberg
Is it better to be late to the party or stay in your comfy, cosy place? On a flight to Stockholm this week, I read an interview with restaurateur Keith McNally that was pegged…
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The year is heating up. Here’s my plan to keep a cool head
It’s diary Saturday in the Brûlé household. The sun is out, there is the gentlest breeze and diaries, pencils and erasers are at the ready. First up, the week ahead: Salone del Mobile in…
Farewell Gwen Robinson: a journalistic force, a friend and a true original
On the odd day over the past few weeks, I’ve perched in the lounge of our new Paris outpost talking to French journalists about the Monocle story and, in part, my own. It’s been…
French connection: Monocle’s Paris opening and Air France’s new first-class cabins
This won’t exactly come as news but a few intense days of entertaining and being hosted in Paris reminded me how very, very good the French are at hospitality… ParisOn Tuesday I attended the…
Marbella has evolved into a welcoming year-round hub for its global visitors. Here’s why you should visit
If it’s nearing the end of Q1 then it must be time for my annual reset and, as has become tradition, I’m tapping away on my terrace at the Buchinger Wilhelmi above Marbella. It’s…
From Canada, with love: A lesson in loss
It’s late winter 1983 and the idea has been floated around the family dinner table in Montréal that I should do a European summer tour with my grandmother. School strikes in Quebec mean that…
Europe must get competitive in order to flourish – and that means less regulation and more risk-taking
It’s Friday evening in the presidential apartment at the Élysée Palace and Brigitte Macron has organised a cosy, welcome-home evening for the French president off the back of his dash over to Washington. Following…
In safe hands: Security in our cities is more important now than ever
Did you grow up in a community where the local newspaper was housed in a shop sandwiched between a dental practice and a dry cleaner? Perhaps the most recent edition was displayed in a…
Lessons in design and technology from the Gulf states
The week has been punctuated by a series of key words that have popped up in conversations social, work-related and all chatter in between. We start in Abu Dhabi but the focus was on…
Behind the scenes with Monocle in Paris and beyond
There are many ways to start the week but how often does yours involve spinning on a dancefloor beneath the snowy streets of an Austrian ski resort? LechI had just finished a lovely dinner…
Five tips on commerce and brand building
Allow me to pick up where Andrew left off in yesterday’s edition. If you want to hear more war stories and what happened with that mountain of cash in the lobby of an Inter-Conti…
