Perspectives from U Street's Leading Glaswegian Shepherd, his white-haired human, and today's first photo.

Washington, DC
Joined June 2007
Tyler Brรปlรฉ complains about the airport in Lisbon and unattractive storefronts of Chinese-owned businesses in Budapest. monocle.com/minute/2024/09/2โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ dispatches his boyfriend and elderly mother to Lisbon to assist him in apartment renovation. The details are quite tedious. monocle.com/minute/2024/09/2โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ complains about plastic plants, Japanโ€™s customs agency,, and adult travelers arriving in Tokyo dressed as toddlers. monocle.com/minute/2024/09/1โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ complains about companies too hesitant to jettison โ€œrigid inclusivity initiativesโ€ and reimpose dress codes in what he deems an unjustified effort to assuage younger workers. monocle.com/minute/2024/09/0โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ complains about the demise of print airline magazines and then, in another effort to support the cherished institutions of his glory days, shops at a department store. monocle.com/minute/2024/09/0โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ complains that the new Starbucks CEO should not work from home, but should be in the field making sure stores are maintained and limiting options so customers are not โ€œoversized infants.โ€ monocle.com/minute/2024/08/2โ€ฆ
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Not caring to view the action from Paris, Tyler Brรปlรฉ instead critiques the diving performances at the pool of a Swiss hotel. monocle.com/minute/2024/08/1โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ overlooks that the increased summer tourist trade in the Alps may have something in common with the decreased winter snow. monocle.com/minute/2024/08/0โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ, in Paris for the Olympics, complains about excessive athleisure in the opening ceremony uniforms and a surfeit of drag queens, but praises Celine Dion. monocle.com/minute/2024/07/2โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ complains that coverage of Fridayโ€™s worldwide wave of air cancellations was overwrought (probably because it was a day he had no flight to catch) but still plans to acquire a safe to stash a few thousand dollars for the next tech meltdown. monocle.com/minute/2024/07/2โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ spends time off in Sanremo, Italy, a place he acclaims for the absence of non-Italian tourists, but then complains that the once-grand hotels along the Mediterranean are either faded or abandoned. monocle.com/minute/2024/07/1โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ advises against summer travel to Japan, but recommends taking the Italian railroad from Barcelona to Madrid. monocle.com/minute/2024/07/0โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ attempts to balance the need to improve the Monocle website with his determination not to make quality content (as opposed to his column) available for free. monocle.com/minute/2024/06/3โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ complains that the propensity of European train stations to replace newsstands with places to buy cold drinks is impairing his business plan. monocle.com/minute/2024/06/2โ€ฆ
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Tyler Brรปlรฉ is back in Zurich and makes the unsurprising announcement that the largest room in his mini-hotel will be furnished precisely to his specifications, which do not appear to resemble anything offered by Marriott Bonvoyโ€™s 35 different brands. monocle.com/minute/2024/06/1โ€ฆ
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