We meet J-pop’s hottest international act, which made its highly anticipated European debut this month in the UK. Acclaimed ...

The second photographic survey from independent publishing house Zupagrafika considers the building style that dominates much ...

French funk to Argentinian pop, Fernando Augusto Pacheco provides a taster of Monocle Radio’s Summer Playlist 2025.

Live from Zürich: Christian Gattiker of Julius Baer explains how stock markets and investors are reacting to the Iran-Israel ...

As the potential for war, regime change and nuclear armament surrounds Iran, we ask how its people are living the moment.

I’m not so sure that Antonio’s Law, as this theory might be called, is particularly watertight – plenty of things can quite ...

The Choice of Sovereignty”, “Protecting Democracy” and “Ready for the Unknown”. Not a promotional campaign for the US Navy ...

Andrew Mueller explains how the rivalry between the late and former president, Edgar Lungu, and the current president, ...

Professor John Amaechi, founder of APS intelligence, discusses the importance of good leadership to make positive change and ...

We explore the UN Human Rights Council summer session in Geneva, which faces major budget shortages and threats from ...

Monocle’s editorial director and chairman, Tyler Brûlé, and Paris bureau chief, Simon Bouvier, discuss Qatar Airways being ...

Designer Hiromichi Ochiai reveals how a simple pair of striped socks transformed Japan's ubiquitous konbini into unexpected ...