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Sunday Morning: Stories From Zürich & Marseille

June 11, 2023 – Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, discusses the weekend’s biggest news stories with Juliet Linley and Christof Münger.

We also speak to Mary Fitzgerald in Marseille and hear the latest from the Zürich Art Weekend.

Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London

Monocle on Saturday, June 10, 2023: Updates on the weekend’s culture news and current affairs with Georgina Godwin.

Historian, broadcaster and screenwriter Alex von Tunzelmann reviews the papers and Monocle’s Monica Lillis visits Poland’s award-winning pavilion at the London Design Biennale.

News: China Fighter Jets Enter Taiwan Airspace, EU Creates New ‘Ethics Body’

The Globalist Podcast, Friday, June 9, 2023: China enters Taiwanese airspace and Japanese waters. Is this business as usual or a serious escalation?

Plus: the EU’s “Hogwarts for ambassadors”, the latest fashion news and the White Cube gallery heads to Seoul.

Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’

The Art Newspaper (June 8, 2023): Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on their collaborative art, Wayne McGregor on his new choreographic work—a collaboration with the late Carmen Herrera—and Whistler’s Mother returns to Philadelphia.

Ahead of an exhibition of their work in London in September, we talk to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood—who has created the artwork with Yorke for every Radiohead album since 1994, as well the visuals accompanying Thom’s solo records and side projects including the recent records by The Smile—about their collaboration.

A new work for the UK’s Royal Ballet by the choreographer Wayne McGregor premieres at the Royal Opera House in London on 9 June. Untitled, 2023 is a collaboration with the Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, developed before Herrera’s death last year at the age of 106. We talk to McGregor about the piece and the intersection between visual art and choreography.

And this episode’s Work of the Week is one of the most famous pictures in the world: Arrangement in Grey and Black, better known as Whistler’s Mother, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. It’s part of an exhibition called The Artist’s Mother: Whistler and Philadelphia, curated by Jenny Thompson, and we speak to Jenny about the work and the show.

News: Pence Enters GOP Race, Ukraine Dam Breach Fallout, CNN Fires Its CEO

The Globalist Podcast, Thursday, June 8, 2023: Former US vice president Mike Pence bids for the 2024 Republican nomination.

Plus: the fallout continues from the Kakhovka dam blast, the Japanese military reconsiders its tattoo ban and the toad species that is wreaking havoc in Australia.

News: Ukraine Dam Breach Flooding, Blinken In Saudi Arabia, Crowded GOP Field

The Globalist Podcast, Wednesday, June 7, 2023: Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam: what we know about the breach.

Plus: US secretary of state Antony Blinken visits Saudi Arabia, Brazil says goodbye to a bossa nova legend and why the French military working with science-fiction writers.

News: Major Ukraine Dam Destroyed, Multinational Naval Drills In Indonesia

The Globalist Podcast, Tuesday, June 6, 2023: Ukraine‘s Kakhovska dam was completely destroyed; naval drills in Indonesia bring together Chinese, Russian and US forces, we get the latest from Jakarta.

Plus: reports of mass arrests in Kyrgyzstan, our technology correspondent is in California as Apple announces its newest releases and why Studio Ghibli’s forthcoming film will be unique.

Opinion: Global Fertility’s Crash, Scotland Populism Unravels, Bad Bunny Rises

‘Editor’s Picks’ Podcast (June 5, 2023) A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the economic consequences of the global collapse in fertility, Scotland’s holiday from reality (10:10) and the business of the rapper, Bad Bunny (18:10). 

Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences

What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory?

Even as artificial intelligence (ai) leads to surging optimism in some quarters, the baby bust hangs over the future of the world economy.

Scotland has been on a ten-year holiday from reality

Populism can unravel quickly. But its effects are long-lasting

Scotland was the first part of Britain to get high on populist referendums. In 2014, two years before the Brexit vote, the Scottish independence campaign exhorted people to ignore the experts and revel in a glorious national renewal.

Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - SEPTEMBER 04: Bad Bunny attends Made In America Festival on September 04, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/WireImage)

On Spotify and Netflix Spanish seems to be taking over the world

In November Spotify crowned Bad Bunny, a rapper from Puerto Rico, its most-streamed artist for the third year in a row.

News: Ukraine Offensive, UAE Politics In The Middle East, Sweden-NATO Talks

The Globalist Podcast, Monday, June 5, 2023: Journalist Maria Romanenko gives us the latest from Ukraine and we discuss the shifting power dynamics in the UAE.

Plus: Do you need to speak English to become Spain’s next leader? We also look at the stories dominating the papers in Scandinavia with Monocle’s Oslo correspondent, Lars Bevanger.

Sunday Morning: Stories From Zürich & London

June 4, 2023 – Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, Fabienne Kinzelmann and Oliver Strijbis discuss the weekend’s biggest news stories in Zürich.

Plus: we check in with our friends and correspondents in Ljubljana, Hamburg and London.