The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 11 March 2023 Georgians flocked to the streets this week to protest a dodgy foreign interference bill. inkl Originals · Mar 11, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 4 March 2023 In 2016, one of our first Weekly Wraps explored the stunned aftermath of the Brexit referendum. After years of institutional failure, diplomatic faux-pas, and bad-faith policy, we are pleased to finally be able to share a rare piece of positive Brexit news. inkl Originals · Mar 4, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 25 February 2023 Friday marked a year of land war in Europe. The conflict is going nowhere fast. The blanket coverage of politics and punditry is good fodder for media outlets but has warped our understanding of the conflict. What is the shape of the war? inkl Originals · Feb 25, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 18 February 2023 East Palestine, Ohio is choking, red-eyed, and scared for its long-term health. Thanks, Obama. And, Trump. And, Biden. inkl Originals · Feb 18, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 11 February 2023 Entire regions of Turkey and Syria lie in ruins after Monday's catastrophic earthquakes. As the death toll soars, the clear gap is opening in how the world responds to these beleagured nations. inkl Originals · Feb 11, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 4 February 2023 Asia's richest man has watched a quarter of his fortune evaporate in a week. An industrial empire is teetering. And it's all because of one teeny-weeny little memo. inkl Originals · Feb 4, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 28 January 2023 When we say "Japanese baby problem" you might imagine the grotesqueries from Akira (1988). But this is about births, deaths, and everything that happens in-between... inkl Originals · Jan 28, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 21 January 2023 It's time to sit down and talk about Andrew Tate. It may be confusing and embarrassing but it is for your own good. inkl Originals · Jan 21, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 14 January 2023 Xi Jinping is acting boldly, but it's not in the direction many feared. This week we delve into the constraints that spurred a widespread softening of China's internal and external policies inkl Originals · Jan 14, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 7 January 2023 The Sinaloa Cartel was dealt a significant blow this week with the capture of Ovidio Guzmán. You know the name. The city of Culiacán descended into an orgy of retaliatory violence. inkl Originals · Jan 7, 2023
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 24 December 2022 A lot can happen in 168 hours. We keep track of it all, so you don’t have to... inkl Originals · Dec 24, 2022
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 17 December 2022 This man needs little introduction. He's a scoundrel who drank his own bath water. A gambling exemplar of modern techno-capitalism. And if we lived in a just society, Sam Bankman-Fried would be TIME magazine's Person of the Year. inkl Originals · Dec 17, 2022
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 10 December 2022 This week we'll cover a couple of coups. A two-d'etat. A pair of putsches. A duet of depositions. Okay, that's enough. Onwards. inkl Originals · Dec 10, 2022
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 3 December 2022 What a spectacular finish to the Group Stage of the World Cup. It's a wonderful game. We'll give the FIFA-bashing a rest for the week; they seem to be doing a good enough job of it themselves at the moment. inkl Originals · Dec 3, 2022
inkl Originals · Nov 26, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 26 November 2022 A spate of mass shootings absorbed America this week. You've been here before. Too many guns. Too much homophobia and transphobia. Too much polarisation. Too little tolerance. Too sparse opportunities for social mobility.
inkl Originals · Nov 19, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 19 November 2022 We're loathe to kick someone while they are down but this story has gone from ludicrous to fever-dream. Sam Bankman-Fried is trying to tweet through it. FTX's bankruptcy specialists are rending their garments and ululating.
inkl Originals · Nov 12, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 12 November 2022 Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency empire collapsed this week. His $16bn personal fortune was incinerated in a matter of days (another rousing win for the normative determinists). Not bad for a 30-year-old.
inkl Originals · Nov 5, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 5 November 2022 Let's check in on our cousins in the United States in the dying days of the 2022 midterm campaign. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate sit uncomfortably on a knife's edge.
inkl Originals · Oct 29, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 29 October 2022 The fundamentals of the world's largest technology companies are on display this week. Not much of it is peachy.
inkl Originals · Oct 22, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 22 October 2022 Well, that was quick. This week Liz Truss resigned. She's left her party, and country, in a shambolic state.
inkl Originals · Oct 15, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 15 October 2022 On Monday the Sveriges Riksbank prize (the Nobel Prize for Economics) was awarded to Ben Bernanke. We can trace the last century of American economics in his life's work. He's often described as the saviour of the last recession. But what about this one?
inkl Originals · Oct 8, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 8 October 2022 On Thursday, 37 people were massacred in rural Thailand. 22 were children under the age of five. The current orthodoxy is to place the victims in the centre of the frame. Today, we think it important to reverse it.
inkl Originals · Oct 1, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 1 October 2022 Honest and timely feedback is crucial when someone is starting a new role. This is true of any organisation: No. 10 Downing Street included . It's been 24 days since the investiture of Liz Truss as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. How's she doing?
inkl Originals · Sep 24, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 24 September 2022 Protests erupted in Iran after a young woman died in the custody of the morality police. The enforcement of hijab laws has precipitated the wholesale incineration of headscarves across the country.
inkl Originals · Sep 17, 2022 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 17 September 2022 Inflation lunged sideways, stocks dropped all over the shop, the European Union massaged its slapping hand, and Adobe suite went brrr.