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29 June 2023

The US Supreme Court hands down a ruling with significant implications for affirmative action. In the studio, James Rodgers and Yassmin Abdel-Magied discuss the continuing fallout from Wagner’s failed mutiny, a failed Eid…

29 June 2023

The latest from Paris, where protests continue over the fatal shooting of a teenager by a police officer. Plus: how campaigning for the US presidential election has already begun and Monocle’s Fernando Augusto on the sum…

29 June 2023

Wagner sets up camp in Belarus – but what will they do next and who will they be fighting for? Why do so many people not like the way Joe Biden is handling the economy? Plus: Japan prepares to release wastewater from the…

28 June 2023

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted march on Moscow, we ask what’s next for the Wagner mercenary group’s operations in Africa and the Middle East. With Sean Ryan and Barbara Serra. Plus: Stockholm risks tensions with Ankara…

28 June 2023

How much did Moscow’s senior military leaders know in advance about the weekend’s Wagner group mutiny? Also in the programme: Sweden’s Almedalen Week, a summer event often described as the most important in the country’s…

28 June 2023

We discuss how the Russian propaganda machine is trying to retell the weekend’s events to its citizens and explain how Russian influence may sway Polish voters. Plus: an exploration of the decades-long evolution of the word…

27 June 2023

Toronto elects Olivia Chow as its new mayor. Plus: China’s premier critiques “the politicisation of economic issues” by the West at an economic forum in Tianjin and journalists at France’s main Sunday newspaper go on strike…

27 June 2023

A new recording of Donald Trump appearing to show off classified documents, the debate in Germany after the far-right AFD party wins a local election, plus a look at the day’s international papers.

27 June 2023

New Zealand’s prime minister, Chris Hipkins, visits China for trade talks as Saudi Arabia sends a top delegation to an economic forum in Tianjin. Kiwi journalist Lisette Reymer and China analyst Isabel Hilton discuss what’s…

26 June 2023

Former Ukrainian MP Aliona Hlivco and journalist Caroline Frost discuss the effect of the Wagner group’s semi-mutiny on the Kremlin, Italy’s attempts to appoint more Italian museum directors and the Chinese young people…

26 June 2023

The latest insights on the events in Russia over the weekend, how Toronto has been preparing for today’s mayoral election and a look at Argentina’s presidential candidates.  

26 June 2023

We discuss how the weekend’s events were received in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and by Nato members. Plus: lessons from the second Greek election in two months, the parents in China turning to the tutoring “black market”…

25 June 2023

This week on The Curator, we celebrate Monocle’s Quality of Life issue, revealing the world’s top cities to live in. Plus: a new Grammy Awards category dedicated to African music.

24 June 2023

National leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are gearing up for the alliance’s high-stakes summit next month in Lithuania. How has the war in Ukraine transformed Nato? And what comes next? Andrew Mueller…

23 June 2023

Guy De Launey discusses the failure of the EU-mediated crisis talks between the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo, and Markus Hippi and Isabella Jewell examine Ireland’s plan to pay up to €84,000 to those who are willing to…