The Weekend Opener
from Andrew Tuck
Want to improve your city? Buy a plant pot
You can use our mews as a cut through if you are on foot or a bicycle but a strategically placed bollard means that cars can’t. So, apart from the occasional van dropping off…
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It’s tempting to divide the world – and people – into the creative and the technical, into folk who like the arts and those who take pleasure from a quadratic equation; those who can…
Game changers
1As the date for the 2012 London Olympics edged ever closer, something happened. The harrumphers lost their nerve and started desperately asking whether anyone knew how they might secure some tickets, even to the…
Making a racquet
1It has been a stalled summer in London. After a few days of blue in June, the skies have almost consistently been sullen grey and the rainfall far too ambitious for my liking. In…
Coming attractions
1What are you doing on Monday 15 July? Fancy a date (for your diaries) in Paris? That evening, I’ll be co-hosting an event to celebrate the publication of The Monocle Companion: Fifty Ideas for…
Moving the needle
Martin asked whether we would like to spend one final weekend in the magical home in the English countryside that he and his partner, Peter, spent years creating (cue the sound of my bags…
In good company
We made a mini magazine this week just for us (sorry). We wanted to have something that tells our story, explores all that we do in the world, puts the spotlight on our amazing…
One for the record
I am not sure how it ended up in our house. There were many wonderful things about my parents but musical taste really wasn’t one of them. The small collection of records in their…
Bridging the gap
Bratislava played host to an urbanism conference called Start with Children this week. The Slovak capital’s mayor, Matus Vallo, had pushed to organise the event because he’s ambitious about delivering change to this city…
French fancy
It’s Thursday night and a team dinner in Paris. We’re back at Loulou, the restaurant that hosted the welcome reception for Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference in 2022. This time we are not on…
Pushing up daisies
Summer brings with it a plant-watering ritual that eases my transition from day to evening. I cycle home, open the garage door and pull out the hose (not a euphemism) and, for the pots…
