We reflect on Antony Blinken’s address on the Russia-Ukraine tensions and ask whether the pandemic is nearing its endgame.
Plus: Portugal’s forthcoming election, Andrew Mueller on the week’s stranger stories and Greece’s attempts to bring the Parthenon marbles back to Athens.
Shoppers across the developed world face sharply rising prices, and leaders are reaching for all manner of remedies—but that’s what central banks are for.
Behind the story of Myanmar’s brutal military leadership is a slow stream of defectors; our correspondent meets the support network they rely on. And cover songs muddle the notion of who can call it their tune.
Russia’s Arctic construction boom is seriously warming up.
We explore the latest escalation in the tensions between Russia and Ukraine as troops mass in Belarus. Plus: Indonesia names its new capital and we profile Roberta Metsola, the new president of the European parliament.
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, beware the bossy state, Britain’s party-animal prime minister (11:45) and, why America and China are one military accident away from disaster (18:00)
Monocle’s Emma Nelson and panellists Vincent McAviney and Stephen Dalziel cover the weekend’s most interesting discussion topics, live from London.
Georgina Godwin sets the tone for the weekend. Simon Brooke reviews the newspapers, Andrew Mueller rounds up what we learned this week, and Monocle’s editor in chief Andrew Tuck is back with his weekend column.
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