Done well, writing isn’t the transcription of thought so much as the interrogation of it.

Mark Carney’s Davos address put world leaders – and their speechwriters – on notice
Blake Matich
Monocle January 2026

“The strong will do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”
Thucydides
c. 460 -c. 400 BC an Athenian historian and general.

The persistence of language-based award categories feels increasingly misplaced. While viewers flick easily between languages, institutions continue to draw borders that the screen itself has already dissolved. 

Why the Academy Awards should get rid of its foreign-language category
Monocle January 2026

Catherine Balston

Autoplay is a minor assertion of power and one of the many, easily overlooked ways that the attention economy leans on us every day.

The death of the end credits: What streaming subtly gained by taking them away
Monocle
JANUARY 13, 2026