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Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London

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Monocle on Saturday (October 5, 2024): After a week of escalating tensions in the Middle East, Yossi Mekelberg, associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, joins Emma Nelson to reflect on the week’s news from the region.

Then: Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent, Petri Burtsoff, tells the story of a restored cultural icon in the city, and we learn about the future of digital art with the CEO of Lumen Studios, Jen Roebuck, and the director of The Lumen Prize, Gillian Varney.

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News: New Russia Draft Law Exempts Criminals, Houthi Drone Attack

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Monocle Radio Podcast (October 4, 2024): Russia’s new law exempting defendants from criminal liability if they join the army, the Iran-backed Houthi militia carry out a drone attack on Tel Aviv and the lives of children on Ukraine’s frontline. Plus: we dive into protest architecture.

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News: Is Iran Ready For “All-Out” War With Israel, Germany-France Politics

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Monocle Radio Podcast (October 3, 2024): How close are the Middle East’s two greatest foes to all-out conflict? Then: German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French president Emmanuel Macron meet in Berlin, Singapore’s former transport minister is on trial and we get an update on Hurricane Helene.

Plus: a visit to Christie’s Asia flagship and there’s a reshuffle at Celine.

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News: Iran Fires Missiles At Israel, Walz And Vance In Vice Presidential Debate

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Monocle Radio Podcast (October 2, 2024): We get the latest from Iran and the US after a long night of activity. Plus: a look at Marine le Pen’s embezzlement trial, the latest design news and a hunt for the oldest DNA.

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News: Israel Advances Into Lebanon, Iran Prepares Missile Strike

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Monocle Radio Podcast (October 1, 2024): The latest from Lebanon, Czechia’s coalition crisis, the Mozambican soldiers operating out of Total Energies’ natural gas plant, why sex has returned to cinema and news from the world of architecture. Plus: we report from Paris Fashion Week.

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News: Nasrallah Killing Will Change Balance Of Power, Mexico Leadership

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Monocle Radio Podcast (September 30, 2024): Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, was killed in a huge Israeli air attack on Beirut. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says that the assassination will change the balance of power in the region. What happens next?

Also in the programme: Mexico bids farewell to Andrés Manuel López Obrador and welcomes its first-female president, Claudia Sheinbaum; Russia eyes a satellite deal in West Africa; and Jakarta braces for a mayoral election. Plus, we discuss the UN’s meeting on the “slow-motion pandemic” and we head to Ibiza Town for a gastronomic tour.

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Sunday Morning: Stories From London And Beirut

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Monocle on Sunday (September 29, 2024): Georgina Godwin, Terry Stiastny, and David Schlesinger on the weekend’s biggest talking points.

We also speak to Monocle’s contributing editor Andrew Mueller in London, foreign correspondent Hannah McCarthy in Beirut, and Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé in Paris on the latest from Lebanon. Plus: Monocle correspondent Mary Fitzgerald on her trip to Kyiv with Brussels think tank Friends of Europe, and Monocle’s Balkans correspondent Guy De Launey on the latest news from the region.

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Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London

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Monocle on Saturday (September 28, 2024): The 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly concluded this week but what did it achieve? What can we expect from Keir Starmer’s meeting with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday?

And what is behind the surge in popularity of South Korean skincare in the UK? Georgina Godwin and international broadcast correspondent, Nina dos Santos, discuss this and more of the week’s news and culture. Plus: Monocle’s Gunnar Gronlid attends the opening of the world’s first commercial CO2 capture-and-storage facility in Norway, and we get the latest on The Book Hive, a UK-based independent bookshop and publisher, with the owner, Henry Layte.

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News: Israel Rejects Calls For A Lebanon Ceasefire And Elections In Austria

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Monocle Radio Podcast (September 27, 2024): As international calls grow louder for a three-week ceasefire in Lebanon, Allison Kaplan Sommer joins Georgina Godwin to discuss the likelihood of a pause in fighting.

Plus: Monocle’s Christopher Cermak looks ahead to the Austrian elections and Karen Krizanovich joins us for the latest in the world of film.

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The New York Review Of Books – October 17, 2024

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The New York Review of Books (September 26, 2024) – The latest issue features:

‘The Death of Some Ideal’

The Irish novelist Anne Enright writes with great prowess and wit about women who make a virtue of getting on with things.

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

The Fact Man

At the heart of Daniel Defoe’s fictional world is a feeling for change, of the mutability and shiftiness of modern life and the people who thrive in it.

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe edited by Nicholas Seager and J.A. Downie

The Problems with Polls

Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them by G. Elliott Morris