The Forecast (Monocle) 2025

The Entrepreneurs is Monocle’s handsome handbook for starting, improving or upending your business – and we have plenty in the way of ideas and inspiration. We profile the best places to start a venture, whether that’s running a hotel in Mexico or a business from the beach beyond Lisbon. Our outposts of opportunity also spell […]

The exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcase the ingenuity and ongoing reinvention shaping the world’s built environment. It’s fitting, then, that the fifth instalment in Monocle’s Companion series uses this event as a springboard for 50 new essays, interviews and ideas from both 2025’s Biennale exhibitors and the wider Monocle community. Highlights include: lessons […]

Not the Harvard-produced satire of the ’60s, Monocle reports the parts of international affairs, policy, culture and social trends that are relevant to people also interested in furniture design, exotic travel…..

The Monocle team dips its toe into the world of swimming, revealing 100 beautiful and inspiring places to take the plunge. Swimming is excellent exercise of course, but it’s so much more than that: it can be a transcendental experience, offering us space to reflect and to escape. It’s an antidote to screens and all-encompassing […]