The European Union, NATO and the “Five Eyes” intelligence partners have all joined America in accusing China’s government of involvement in hacking campaigns. Now what?
Away from the spectacle of billionaires’ race to the heavens, many African countries are establishing space programmes—with serious innovation and investment opportunities on the ground. And why Australia is suffering from a plague of mice.
The flood waters in Germany and Belgium have started receding with more than 180 people dead. It’s the worst flooding the region has seen in decades and comes on top of a worsening COVID outbreak throughout Europe.
Guests: Axios’ Dave Lawler, Kim Hart and Felix Salmon.
The weekend’s top discussion topics with Georgina Godwin. Featuring Charles Hecker with the newspapers, Monocle editor in chief Andrew Tuck’s column and what we’ve learned this week.
Could Poland crash out of the EU? Plus: Spanish citizens sue the government over “illegal” lockdown laws and what we learned this week.
A.M. Edition for July 12. WSJ’s Paul Hannon on how the international plan for a corporate minimum tax may face hurdles with U.S. lawmakers. Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flight.
Big U.S. bank earnings are expected this week. Companies see business opportunities in stressed-out Americans. Keith Collins hosts.
Monocle’s Emma Nelson, Latika Bourke and Rob Cox cover the weekend’s biggest news. Also in the programme: a check-in with our correspondent in the Balkans and what’s on the pages of Austria’s ‘Profil’ magazine.
Emma Nelson sets the tone for the weekend with newspaper reviewer Vincent McAviney. Also in the programme: the biggest news from the Cannes Film Festival and what we learned this week.
The latest on the UN Security Council showdown over humanitarian aid for Syria. Plus: we find out about Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam’s call for parents to monitor their children’s political beliefs and the French cities that are imposing restrictions on Airbnb.
The Olympics are less than three weeks away and over this past weekend we saw three big headlines, all having to do with restrictions that have primarily affected women of color and intersex people.
And it’s left many fans wondering who these Olympic rules are actually serving.
Guests: Axios’ Ina Fried, Margaret Talev and Harvard University constitutional law professor Noah Feldman.
Passport queues are lengthening; ad-hoc civilian militias are strengthening. As foreign powers bow out, Taliban militants take district after district—and the fear of the people is palpable.
The pandemic drove a boom in the attention economy, and media companies happily obliged. Now, it seems, an “attention recession” looms. And a look at the thoroughly inbred nature of thoroughbred horses.
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