As the global reactions to the US election debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump pour in, Natasha Lindstaedt joins Vincent McAviney to discuss some of the highlights. Plus: has a small island off the coast of Galicia found a positive solution to the overtourism problem?

As the global reactions to the US election debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump pour in, Natasha Lindstaedt joins Vincent McAviney to discuss some of the highlights. Plus: has a small island off the coast of Galicia found a positive solution to the overtourism problem?

A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering everything from technology to aviation and retail to media.

A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering everything from technology to aviation and retail to media.

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Harris rattles Trump

As Donald Trump and Kamala Harris make a final sprint across key battleground states, we consider why the election campaign in Wisconsin has remained so close. Then: we explore Asia Society Switzerland’s annual State of Asia conference and discuss who won big at the CFDA awards. Plus: a tribute to late music legend Quincy Jones.

As Donald Trump and Kamala Harris make a final sprint across key battleground states, we consider why the election campaign in Wisconsin has remained so close. Then: we explore Asia Society Switzerland’s annual State of Asia conference and discuss who won big at the CFDA awards. Plus: a tribute to late music legend Quincy Jones.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris make their closing remarks

We check in with Monocle’s US editor Christopher Lord in Atlanta to discuss the climactic showings of the Trump and Harris campaigns ahead of the presidential election on 5 November. Plus: the RA’s Dorfman Prize in architecture with Tim Abrahams and we hear from the minds behind A24’s new cerebral horror film, ‘Heretic’, with Fernando Augusto Pacheco.  

We check in with Monocle’s US editor Christopher Lord in Atlanta to discuss the climactic showings of the Trump and Harris campaigns ahead of the presidential election on 5 November. Plus: the RA’s Dorfman Prize in architecture with Tim Abrahams and we hear from the minds behind A24’s new cerebral horror film, ‘Heretic’, with Fernando Augusto Pacheco.

Climactic pitches for the US presidency

North Korea test-fires an upgraded, long-range missile; at least 95 people have died and many remain missing in Spain’s flash-floods; vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are both in the pivotal battleground states of Nevada and Arizona; and could Canada get its first high-speed rail service soon? Plus: an election special edition of ‘The Global Countdown’ with Fernando Augusto Pacheco. 

North Korea test-fires an upgraded, long-range missile; at least 95 people have died and many remain missing in Spain’s flash-floods; vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are both in the pivotal battleground states of Nevada and Arizona; and could Canada get its first high-speed rail service soon? Plus: an election special edition of ‘The Global Countdown’ with Fernando Augusto Pacheco.

Harris rattles Trump

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