The Faster Lane
from Tyler Brûlé
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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…
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…
