Monocle on Sunday (October 13, 2024): Emma Nelson, Alex von Tunzelmann and David Bodanis on the weekend’s biggest talking points.
We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé in Bodrum after the Quality of Life Conference and Monocle’s correspondent in Nairobi, Naveena Kottoor, gives us the latest news from Kenya and the region.
The Guardian Weekly (October 12, 2024) – The new issue features ‘The Isolation of Israel’ – On a year of the Israel-Gaza War…
Remember when the existence of natural disasters wasn’t up for ‘debate’? It seems like a long time ago now
Monocle on Saturday (October 12, 2024): From Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference in Istanbul, we hear insights from US submarine officer Taylor Sheppard on maximising quality of life underwater.
Then: award-winning author, playwright and essayist Kate Mosse joins Vincent McAviney to talk about her research process and the release of the fourth and final part of her Joubert Family Chronicles series, ‘The Map of Bones’. Plus: writer at large for ‘The Nightly’ Latika Bourke looks back at the week’s news including the continuing conflict in the Middle East, Barack Obama’s comments on the US election and art protests.
Times Literary Supplement (October 9, 2024): The latest issue features ‘This English House’ – W.H. Auden’s changing view of home by Seamus Perry…
Country Life Magazine (October 8, 2024): The latest issue features…
Annie Tempest’s inimitable characters totter gently into the modern age with a new website
Dogs, birds, pigs and humans alike follow hippopotami down the hollow. Deborah Nicholls-Lee dons her wellies and joins them
Ben Pentreath unravels what makes an interior English, that indefinable, yet instantly recog-nisable and beguiling aesthetic
The border of England and Wales is proving inspiring for artisanal craftsmen, finds Arabella Youens
Country Life’s Interiors Editor Giles Kime opens the doors to his revived 17th-century cottage
From bamboo bookshelves to lamps and pots, Amelia Thorpe chooses accessories to covet
The scientist and historian picks a powerful royal portrait
Minette Batters takes her seat in the House of Lords
The historic streetscapes of our towns and cities reveal lessons we still need to learn about how to build, believes Ptolemy Dean
Kate Green salutes Dorothy Brooke and the global equine charity that bears her name
Manmade, yet wild, deer parks prove we can create Arcadia, asserts John Lewis-Stempel
Jack Watkins admires the huge, ancient and once-exotic cedars that punctuate our landscapes
Hetty Lintell tallies her trinkets
An imaginative kitchen extension and tea-tinged fabrics
The good bones that anchor the gardens of Foscote Manor, Buckinghamshire, please the eye of George Plumptre
John Wright raises a dram of home-made vodka to the crab apple
Always comforting, cottage pie satisfies Tom Parker Bowles
Pick up a handful or several of salted peanuts when you’re next in the pub, urges Rob Crossan
The humble sheep changed the course of British art history, reveals Bendor Grosvenor
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