3+ week, 5+ day ago   (998+ words) From fashion to toys, outsourced production lines are closing as companies rediscover local industries. This shift brings benefits to individual companies and suggests that not every western nation must be a service economy. For years, the chase to cut costs…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (219+ words) Abu Dhabi is built on oil but the city is morphing into a technology and culture superpower. Who are the visionaries on the ground turning dreams into bricks and mortar? It’s water towers in New York, strobe-lit banks in Hong…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (290+ words) Russia has launched its own fleet of Rassvet satellites, which could challenge Ukraine’s use of Starlink for combat. It sounds like the battle sequence from a science fiction film. An enemy is detected by sensors that transmit the information to…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (271+ words) Greece is emerging as a trusted European hub for the development of many advanced technologies that are increasingly crucial to modern warfare. The goal, he says, was to make a reliable scaled-down helicopter. The project underwent a demanding real-world test…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (290+ words) Monocle China’s technological development has long been perceived as an existential threat to the global order but perhaps Shenzhen’s spooks, America’s TV hawks and the ambassadors of Beijing’s diplomatic quarter have it all wrong. You might have read the headlines…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (801+ words) Monocle I have long been intrigued by the rituals of hospitality. When I look back on the years that I spent on the road as a foreign correspondent, I remember warm welcomes more than any other encounters. Whether it was…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (277+ words) ‘La Settimana Enigmistica’ has been Italians’ puzzle magazine of choice for almost a century. Its editor, Alessandro Bartezzaghi, explains why. Bartezzaghi compares his role to clearing a way through a jungle, machete in hand, as others follow. “There’s a job…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (759+ words) In 1991, Estonia broke free from the Soviet Union. Now Europe’s fastest-growing economy, its hi-tech boom continues under a re-elected government. But for how long can this extraordinary growth be sustained? If ever a currency could claim to be appropriately named,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (115+ words) Monocle AI could – and probably will – change the way that many of us work. But some sectors will be insulated more than others. We ponder the careers that will survive (or even thrive). About the writer: Andrew Mueller is the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (479+ words) France's blogging love affair, plus a green oasis in Spain and our Q&A with the Mayor of Berlin. For many French people, blogging is more than just a variation on the Cartesian “I think, therefore I am” – in this…...