Monocle on Sunday (September 22, 2024): Emma Nelson, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Stephen Dalziel on the weekend’s biggest talking points. We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé in Zürich and Monocle’s correspondent in New Delhi, Lyndee Prickitt, for the latest headlines.
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Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Monocle on Saturday (September 21, 2024): Author and political correspondent Tessa Szyszkowitz joins Georgina Godwin to talk about the pager explosions in Lebanon, seeing Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza in London and fashion at political conferences.
Plus: Monocle’s Mae-Li Evans heads to Amsterdam for the Glue design festival and ‘Financial Times’ senior business writer Andrew Hill looks ahead to the 20th edition of the FT’s Business Book of the Year awards.
News: UN Security Council Emergency Meetings On Israel-Hezbollah Crisis
Politics: The Guardian Weekly-September 20, 2024
The Guardian Weekly (September 12, 2024) – The new issue features ‘The Hunt For Yahya Sinwar’ – Julian Borger On Israel’s Elusive Prime Target…
The last sighting of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who is widely accused of unleashing the Gaza war, was from a retrieved Hamas security video that was apparently recorded three days after the 7 October attack on Israel.
Since then an estimated 41,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in a furious and devastating Israeli bombing response. Yet the prime target Sinwar has remained at large and apparently unscathed.
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Spotlight | Another apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump
Violence and instability have become a feature, not a bug, of US political life, writes Washington DC bureau chief David Smith
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Environment | Darién Gap migration rush creates a pollution crisis
Isolated communities on the Colombia-Panama border are sounding the alarm over poisoned rivers and cultural erosion after a surge in migrants crossing their ancestral lands, finds Luke Taylor
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Feature | The age of rage
Anger has come to def ine the public mood – felt in the posts of social media warriors and harnessed by populist agitators. Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen asks why are we so mad, and how can we navigate to calmer waters
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Opinion | The return of border checks in Germany
The German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s border clampdown threatens the entire European project, argues Maurice Stierl – no wonder the continent’s rightwing populists are cheering
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Culture | Michael Kiwanuka on faith, family and fulfilment
The Mercury prize-winning musician explains to Alexis Petridis how he went from being a ‘slight weirdo’ to wowing Glastonbury – and why he thinks more people are turning to religion
News: More Explosions In Lebanon As Israel Targets Hezbollah Leadership
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Sept. 20, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (September 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Autumn Fiction’ – Rachel Kushner, Olga Tokarczuk, László Krasznahorkai and Sally Rooney; Craig Brown on The Queen; A very Yorkshire horror; China’s Britain complex and The Looting of America…
Country Life Magazine – September 18, 2024 Issue
Country Life Magazine (September 17, 2024): The latest issue features…
The legacy
Amie Elizabeth White hails king of cutlery Harry Brearley, whose stainless-steel invention was — like himself — ‘made in Sheffield’
Country Life’s little-known gems of the Cotswolds
Jane Wheatley swerves the honeypots to share some of the region’s lesser-known places to eat, shop, stay or unwind
Dem bones, dem bones
The world’s first named dinosaur was found in the beautiful Oxfordshire village of Stonesfield. Ben Lerwill meets the Megalosaurus
A taste of the exotic
From coatimundis in Cumbria to scorpions in Kent, Victoria Marston introduces some of Britain’s most exotic residents
One bray at a time
The stoic and devoted donkey is often misunderstood, but it is capable of melting the hardest of hearts, as Katy Birchall learns
Marking time in the Cotswolds
Penny Churchill showcases the best country houses for sale in this sought-after region
Out of the ordinary
Annunciata Elwes scours the Cotswolds property market for something a little different
Geraldine Collinge’s favourite painting
The art-gallery director chooses a spectacular, nightmarish work
Revealing the Roman Cotswolds
Clive Aslet investigates the role of antiquarian Samuel Lysons in recording the excavation of Roman villas in the Cotswolds
Love in an elevator
Country house lifts have been going up in the world ever since Queen Victoria’s day, as Melanie Cable-Alexander discovers
Interiors
Ideas and inspiration for your kitchen, with Amelia Thorpe
Where the north wind doth blow
Tiffany Daneff is blown away by panoramic views and weatherproof planting in the garden at Coates Barn in Warwickshire
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson pairs pears with both sweet and savoury
Foraging
Oyster mushrooms are a woodland delicacy, but vegans might be put off by their carnivorous tendencies, reveals John Wright
The good stuff
Hetty Lintell is on the prowl for luxurious leopard-print pieces
Travel
Steven King heads to Hungary to discover how autumn mists make Tokaji wine irresistible
We band of brothers
Octavia Pollock marvels at the medals of yesteryear, finding that many of their mottos and motifs are works of art in their own right
Right as rain
Michael Prodger dodges the showers to examine drizzle, downpour and deluge in art
The spy who came onto the stage
The first stage adaptation of a Le Carré novel is compelling viewing, says Michael Billington
News: Israel Casts Doubt On Hezbollah Diplomacy, Russia To Expand Its Army
News: New Assassination Attempt On Trump, Houthi Missile Lands In Israel
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Monocle on Saturday (September 14, 2024): Author Kate Kruimink joins Georgina Godwin to talk about her award-winning novella ‘Astraea’ and China Moses discusses her music ahead of the London Jazz Festival launch party.
Plus: Charles Hecker on British diplomats accused of spying in Russia, soaring coffee prices in Italy and the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize.
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