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8 September 2017
A review of the week’s top news stories from Monocle’s editorial team, including Italian politics, Australia’s gun amnesty and Portugal’s status as an expat haven.
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8 September 2017
A review of the week’s top news stories from Monocle’s editorial team, including Italian politics, Australia’s gun amnesty and Portugal’s status as an expat haven.
25 January 2019
Should The Queen intervene in the Brexit debate? Will Nicolás Maduro be granted amnesty if he cedes power in Venezuela? Plus, Finland tops The Good Country Index and Xi Jinping’s umbrella spawns a political movement.
21 November 2014
We discuss reactions to Obama’s planned immigration reform in America and hear from Amnesty International about Syrian refugees in Turkey. Plus weird and wonderful statistics from Ipsos Mori and the latest luxury news.
25 February 2021
Why has Amnesty stripped Alexei Navalny of his ‘prisoner of conscience’ status? Plus: Turkey’s crackdown on the PKK; film-maker James Fletcher on his Trump documentary and we explore Pakistan’s pop charts.
30 March 2016
We look to China as it feels the pressure to do more to contain North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and hear how Australia has tried to stem refugee flows with a full-length film. Plus: a controversial Venezuelan amnesty bill…
27 November 2012
We discuss a "free" media in Gaza with Saeb Erekat and Hugh Naylor, plus Amnesty's Colm O'Gorman explains how austerity is affecting human rights in Ireland.
10 October 2018
The Bank of England warns of job losses in London’s City, why the Syrian president is offering amnesty for men who have escaped or avoided military service, plus a look at Thursday’s Asian front pages.
5 November 2013
Tristan McConnell reports on the supposed end of the M23 insurgency in the DRC, Gwen Robinson on the potential for more unrest in Thailand ahead of the Senate's decision on the controversial amnesty bill and technology…
14 November 2023
As concern grows over Gaza’s biggest hospital, we hear from Matthew Morris of the International Committee of the Red Cross about the organisation’s humanitarian response in the region. Plus: protestors rally against Pedro…
25 February 2017
On ‘Meet The Writers’ this week Georgina Godwin meets Steve Crawshaw, senior advisor at Amnesty International, to discuss his most recent book ‘Street Spirit: The Power of Protest and Mischief’.
24 February 2016
We discuss Spanish and Italian politics and explore human-rights offenders with Amnesty International. Plus: the son of gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson releases a book about his famous father.
25 February 2015
Will Amnesty International’s call to abandon UN veto powers fall on deaf ears? We also learn how Turkey is dealing with Isis and look at the diplomatic ambitions of Benjamin Netanyahu, with Tim Marshall, Isabel Hilton and…
29 October 2014
We ask what Iraqi Peshmerga fighters will add to the fight against Islamic State militants in Kobane, hear from Amnesty International as Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim appeals against a sodomy conviction, and we…
21 June 2014
As Libya continues to grapple with the transition from dictatorship to democracy, Monocle’s foreign editor Steve Bloomfield chairs a debate on the future of the country. With Magdalena Mughrabi of Amnesty International,…
31 January 2018
We take a closer look at the Republican party memo that’s causing a stir in Washington, check in on the US’s quest for an ambassador to South Korea and take stock of political liberty in Turkey upon the release of Amnesty…
1 May 2014
Joseph Dana reports on the ban on May-day protests in Taksim Square, we unpick the details of an Amnesty International report on ISI’s involvement in the persecution of journalists in Pakistan, and Guy De Launey tells the…
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