The Faster Lane
from Tyler Brûlé
Cities are evolving – but not everyone gets to come along for the ride
When do you no longer count (even exist) as a paid-up member of civil society? Is it when you move beyond city limits and check out from the buzz of the metropolis? Are you…
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I went looking for the weekend papers but found a gap in the market instead
Stockholm It’s Sunday morning and we’re heading out for a stride around the city. The route is generally the same every visit and takes in sturdy embassies, funkis-style apartment buildings, a local shopping mall for…
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…
Want to unsubscribe from common sense? There’s an email for that
I was about to wish you a “good morning” but stopped for sensitivity reasons. I then decided “happy Sunday” might be better but, for sensitivity reasons, I held back. “Sunny greetings” seemed like a…
Why we should keep looking up
It’s very late on Friday evening, almost midnight, and I’m sitting in the Al Mourjan Business Lounge at Doha’s Hamad International Airport and reflecting on what has been a whirlwind week of flights, meetings, moderating, reunions…
Learn a look, lighten the load
Happy Easter, bunnies, from a breezy terrace above a modernist stretch of Lisbon. A couple of days ago I decided that this column will occasionally be devoted to life in the Portuguese capital as…
It’s not what you know – it’s who has the keys
MarioIt’s springtime 1996 and I have the wonderful idea to launch a magazine. My friend Nancy recommends a gentleman named Paulo in Milan to help sell the advertising and off I go with my…
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…
