Today’s figures showing the first annual economic growth in three years may seem promising. But the grand plans of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio resemble past policies that have not worked.
The finely tuned government of Bosnia is under grave threat from some of the same forces that caused its brutal war. And why roadkill is now on the menu in Wyoming.
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, what would happen if financial markets crashed? We also profile China’s thinker-in-chief (11:25) and explore how new spinal implants allow the paralysed to walk, swim and cycle again (18:45).
As diplomatic efforts to avert conflict in Ukraine continue, we discuss new US intelligence suggesting that Russia is planning an attack. Plus: Turkey’s clampdown on foreign media and a Winter Olympics round-up.
Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé and panellists Rob Cox and Chandra Kurt cover the weekend’s biggest stories. Plus: we’ll check in with our friends and contributors in London, Copenhagen and Tokyo.
Georgina Godwin sets the tone for the weekend. Simon Brooke reviews the day’s international newspapers; Monocle’s editor in chief Andrew Tuck is back with his weekend column; and Andrew Mueller rounds up the past week for us.
As Russia ratchets up tensions in Ukraine, we discuss Moscow’s joint military drills with Belarus. Plus: Marine Le Pen’s campaign to become France’s president and an interview with the director of the Oscar-nominated film, ‘Flee’.
The state-legislature poll in Uttar Pradesh is in effect a vote on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s increasingly stringent Hindu-national agenda—and will hint at his party’s chances in 2024.
Oil majors are getting points for selling off their dirtiest oil-and-gas operations; we ask who is buying them. And which countries are up and which are down in our annual Democracy Index.
We discuss US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s trip to Australia and weigh up Hong Kong’s zero-Covid policy. Plus: the latest business news and a run-down of the Oscar nominations.
Germany’s Annalena Baerbock heads to Ukraine and election campaigning begins in the Philippines. Plus: can progress be made as Iran nuclear talks resume?
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