The Globalist

Monocle’s Simon Bouvier joins Emma Nelson to discuss the future of the Renaissance party, as former French prime ministers Gabriel Attal and Élisabeth Borne avoid a political bust-up over who will be its next leader. Plus: China’s mounting debt problems, Copenhagen’s witch exhibition and the Vatican City’s new anime mascot.

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Monocle’s Christopher Cermak reports from Washington as Emma Nelson discusses Hezbollah’s new leader choice with Edmund Bower in Beirut. Plus: influence operations and disinformation in Switzerland, historic Italian naval ship docks in Singapore and Bangkok’s Jay Fai announces that she is hanging up her apron. 

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The latest on talks for a proposed two-day truce in Gaza. Plus, questions over the legitimacy of Georgia’s election results, a flip through the papers and the role of conspiracies in the US presidential campaign.

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Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has lost its majority in snap elections but Shigeru Ishiba has vowed to stay on. Fiona Wilson, Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief, joins Georgina Godwin to discuss what comes next. Plus: Lindsey Hilsum on Lebanon and we hear about protecting Slovakia’s cultural heritage and plans for Poland’s new supercity. 

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Georgia goes to the polls tomorrow in the first parliamentary elections since the country obtained EU-candidate status in December 2023, it is also the first since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Joshua Kucera joins Georgina Godwin to discuss this decisive moment for the country’s future and whether it is shifting towards Russia or the West. Plus: What will chancellor Scholz hope to secure for Germany’s economic future from his visit to India? Then: Dutch navy unveils the world’s first unmanned warships. 

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We get the latest following the deadly attack on a major defence and aerospace company in the Turkish capital. Plus: North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia, why Tokyo Metro’s market debut is on the right track and a look ahead to our new programme, ‘Monocle on Fashion’. 

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Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East – but prospects for a ceasefire appear slim. We also get the latest on the UN Biodiversity Conference in Colombia, find out why a former Peruvian president has been jailed for 20 years and learn how Egypt has managed to eradicate malaria. Plus: the Rome International Film Festival.

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Vladimir Putin brings Brics leaders to Kazan, our US politics correspondent brings us the latest two weeks before the presidential election and we discuss King Charles’s testy visit to Australia. Plus: a check-in from San Francisco’s Urban Transformation Summit.

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Moldova’s European Union referendum too close to call and the legacy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. Plus: architect Richard England and the Utopian Hours festival in Turin.

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What does the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar mean for the war? Then: we turn to Mozambique as the ruling Frelimo party claims victory in contested presidential elections. Plus: we report from Art Basel Paris and check out Cathay Pacific’s new business class ‘Aria Suite’.

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