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News: Lebanon Braces For War, Catalan Separatist Returns, Israel-Japan Rift

The Globalist Podcast (August 9, 2024): As Lebanon braces for an attack, we ask what plans are being made in the event of an Israeli invasion, Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont returns to Spain for the first time in seven years and a diplomatic rift over Israel’s exclusion from Japan’s Nagasaki bomb commemoration.

Plus: fashion news, a flick through the papers and a check-in from our team in Paris.

News: Hamas’s New Leader Yahya Sinwar, Bangladesh Names New Interim Leader

The Globalist Podcast (August 8, 2024): We’re joined by journalist Abeer Ayyoub and Chatham House’s Yossi Mekelberg to learn more about Hamas’s new leader, Yahya Sinwar.

Also on the programme: Muhammud Yunus is named as the interim leader of Bangladesh’s government. We consider how this will affect the nation’s relationship with neighbouring India. Plus: we hear from Monocle’s Julia Lasica in Kyiv, discuss the latest news in aviation and Emma Nelson reports from Paris ahead of day 13 of the Olympic Games.

Previews: Country Life Magazine – August 7, 2024

Country Life Magazine (August 7, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Huts for Heroes’ – Where adventures start…

A consolation and pleasure

Could Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert, be considered an architect? He thought so — and Michael Hall tends to agree

The legacy

Carla Passino salutes the modest Henry Tate, whose name will live forever in the art world

The secret history of flowers

Healing, revealing, defence against thieving, our wildflowers’ names tell the story of our ancestors. John Lewis-Stempel reads the leaves

Up where the air is clear

An Antarctic explorer’s base or a Scottish fisherman’s shelter, the humble hut is a crucial element in stirring tales. Robin Ashcroft opens the doors

You rang, your majesty?

Even the most distasteful jobs could offer compensations to savvy servants in the Royal Household, finds Susan Jenkins

Going Dutch

The great Netherlandish masters have no equal in admirers and influence, believes Michael Hall

Harriet Hastings’s favourite painting

The biscuiteer picks a haunting scene in a lonely hotel room

Against the Grain

Carla Carlisle pays tribute to the memory of a farmer, honest broadcaster and dear friend

Bottoms up

What do the white behinds of rabbits, deer and foxes really say? Laura Parker deciphers scuts, rumps and rears

Summer’s last stand

Securing the harvest is the weather watcher’s concern in August, says Lia Leendertz

The good stuff

Hetty Lintell wraps up in style ready to hit the beach

Interiors

A party-ready sitting room and stylish touches for a home office

London Life

  • Rooftop cocktails
  • Wiggy Hindmarch, wine cellars and rosebay willowherb
  • William Hosie’s capital characters
  • Richard MacKichan on the British Museum Reading Room’s return

Presiding spirits

The fourth generation to nurture the garden of Glin Castle, Co Limerick, Ireland, is doing her predecessors proud. Caroline Donald explores a windswept haven beside the Shannon

Kitchen garden cook

Melanie Johnson conjures up treats with courgette flowers

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it

Even the tiniest town garden can offer views and wildlife to rival open countryside, believes city dweller Jonathan Notley

Travel

Pamela Goodman gives in to whimsy in Wales

Harry Hastings delights in the Art Deco Hotel Casa Lucía in Argentina

Rosie Paterson rounds up the best new openings in Greece

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Aug 9, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (August 7, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Paper Dreams’ – Dinah Birch on William Morris’s contradictions; Cancelled left and right; Downfall of the West; Sly old Chaucer; Beowulf, hero of the Northern World….

News: Kamala Harris VP Choice Tim Walz, Google Ruled Illegal Monopoly

The Globalist Podcast (August 7, 2024): US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has announced Tim Walz as her running mate for the November election.

Monocle’s US editor, Christopher Lord, and professor Sarah Churchwell tell us more. Also on the programme: we discuss the social and cultural effects of Venezuela’s disputed elections with Kate Brown and talk about the future of big tech following the ruling on Google’s illegal monopoly, with Hugh Langley of Business Insider. Plus: we check in with Emma Nelson ahead of day 12 of the Paris Olympics.

News: Israel Braces For Iran-Hezbollah Attack, Ukraine’s F-16 Fighter Jets

The Globalist Podcast (August 6, 2024): We get the lastest as Israel braces for a potential co-ordinated attack from Iran and Hezbollah.

Also on the programme: we learn more about Ukraine’s new US-made F-16 fighter jets and discuss the mood in Bangladesh following the resignation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Plus: we speak to the owners of new London art museum Moco and check in with our team in Paris ahead of day 11 of the Olympics.

News: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina Resigns, Harris Running Mate

The Globalist Podcast (August 5, 2024): We get the latest from Bangladesh as violent clashes between protesters and police intensify.

Then: we look ahead to the first campaign rally Kamala Harris will hold with her running mate and get a check-in from Lagos as protests in Nigeria hints at an ‘African Spring’. Finally, we look at the future of tourism on the Greek islands. All that, plus a flick through the morning papers and the latest technology news.

Sunday Morning: Stories And News From Paris, London And St. Moritz

Monocle on Sunday (August 4, 2024): Agnes Poirier joins Emma Nelson at Maison Allianz in Paris for the latest news from Paris. Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, joins from St Moritz, and Philippe Marlière and Georgina Godwin give us the view from London.

Plus: Kieran Pender gives us the latest Olympics updates and we speak to the brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet who have been selected to direct the official film of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024.

Saturday Morning: News And Stories From Paris

Monocle on Saturday (July 27, 2024): Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, and Monocle’s Deputy Head of Radio, Tom Webb, join Georgina Godwin from Paris to reflect on the Olympic Opening Ceremony, and look ahead to the games.

Plus, the CEO of the Affordable Art Fair, Will Ramsey, talks about the global art market and building community with artists and galleries. Finally, politics expert and lecturer, Marta Lorimer, joins Georgina to talk about French politics and her view on the Olympics, as well as Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, and – is Kamala “brat”?.

News: Blinken In Asia To Reassure U.S. Allies, Paris 2024 Olympics Ceremony

The Globalist Podcast (July 26, 2024): We discuss the US’s priorities in Asia as secretary of state Antony Blinken makes his longest foreign trip to the region.

Then: a look ahead to Venezuela’s elections, where polls put the opposition in the lead for the first time in decades. Plus: ‘What We Learned’ this week with Andrew Mueller, why Brazil’s retirees will be taking to the sky and everything you need to know from Paris ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony.