“Industry sacrificed the city’s identity,… It devastated the environment, degraded the air and river, and hid the city’s heritage under a layer of dirt.”
Mayor Mariví Monteserin Rodríguez
Avilés
Spain’s newest art initiative Bienal Climática bridges Avilés’s industrial past with its ecological future
Agnish Ray
Monocle June, 2026
… the person posing the question must remain responsible for the answer…
AI won’t replace jobs humans are good at. Now people just need to prove their worth
Josh Fehnert
Monocle, June, 2026
“The problem is not that children exist on social media. It’s that social-media companies have built platforms that are unsafe by design.”
Kerry Moscogiuri, chief executive of Amnesty International UK
The UK’s under-16 social-media ban won’t make Big Tech
Yo Zushi
Monocle June 2026
Learning data does not merely record what students know. It records what they are becoming and the process of getting there. It captures confusion, failure, dependence, recovery, growth, confidence and vulnerability. It is closer to a developmental archive than a customer record.
The University Now Lives Inside Software
Rod B. McNaughton
Empowering Entrepreneurs | Shaping Thriving Ecosystems
Linkedin
May 15, 2026
“What we are dealing with is a moral trauma, which is a new concept: you live all your life and you know this is right and this is wrong – and then you get to the front lines and everything is mixed.”
Olga Rudnieva NGO Superhumans CEO! Ukraine
‘What we are dealing with is a moral trauma’: How NGO Superhumans is helping to rehabilitate battle-scarred Ukrainians
WRITER: Andrew Mueller
Monocle, June, 2026
Good cities make room for everyone. They also allow space for myriad celebrations and let people thrive somewhere in the fuzzy middle.
From the Pope to Bad Bunny, ‘Madrileños’ have plenty to put their faith in this weekend
Liam Aldous
Monocle
JUNE 3, 2026
“But it’s really symbolic of where the world is going to go. If Ukraine falls to the aggression of Russia, it’s going to give a lesson not just to Russia but to other countries about what they can and can’t get away with.”
US senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona
At the Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa, Ukraine looks increasingly like the leader of the free world
WRITER: Andrew Mueller
Monocle, June, 2026
“Our job is to create a space for reflection and to tell the truth about history, to tell the truth about where we’ve been as a country.”
Theodore Gonzalves, a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Trump wants to censor the semiquincentennial – but museums have other ideas
past speak for itself.
WRITER: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Monocle June! 2026
“If the war is over, who won?”
Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs
questioning Marco Rubio about the war with Iran
He didn’t change my opinion on the state of where we’re at right now. He did something better. He changed my opinion on hope. The hope that you can reach out and connect with people from the absolute opposite, and find a way through this together.
Writing about Speaker of the House, New Zealand Parliament, Jerry Brownlie
Stuff columnist
Verity Johnson
1 June, 2026
