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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 12 March 2022

Kyiv is slowly being encircled. Hundreds have died in the indiscriminate shelling of Mariupol. Refugees as streaming west as volunteers and weapons flood into the east. More and more Ukrainian territory is falling to Russian forces as the invasion intensifies.

inkl Originals · Mar 12, 2022

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 5 March 2022

The latest IPCC report dropped on the same day that eastern Australia was swamped by the worst floods in years. While we must include all the usual caveats (no one meteorological event is caused by climate change, etc.), you can still don your detective's cap.

inkl Originals · Mar 5, 2022

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 26 February 2022

The Russian Federation has invaded neighbouring Ukraine on three fronts in a brash reassertion of power. Hundreds have died in the initial assault and millions are being uprooted right now.

inkl Originals · Feb 26, 2022

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 22 January 2022

We've got quite a bit to get through this week so please keep your questions for the end. Biden racked up a year in office. Another keystone piece of his legislative agenda floundered in the Senate. And, you can rebook your winter holiday to Cuba now.

inkl Originals · Jan 22, 2022

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 15 January 2022

Each December a certain august weekly newspaper publishes a profile on its country of the year. We take no pleasure in reporting the fact that, just two weeks into January, the United Kingdom has dropped out of contention for the 2022 award. Here's why...

inkl Originals · Jan 15, 2022

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 8 January 2022

The election that was. The coup that wasn't. And the cause that just won't die. A year on, America has all the rhetoric but few answers about the events that transpired on January 6, 2021.

inkl Originals · Jan 8, 2022

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 25 December 2021

This week we'll look to three stories elevated above the mire of everyday life. Each speaks to the desire for betterment that all too often falls off the front pages to make way for conflict and hardship. Let's lift our eyes towards 2022.

inkl Originals · Dec 25, 2021

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 18 December 2021

After an unrelenting year of coups, crashes, and covid, it's time to start unwinding. This week the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) unveiled the 2021 additions to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

inkl Originals · Dec 18, 2021

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 11 December 2021

Artillery arranged along a muddy front line, thirty years of mistrust, and a two-hour presidential phone call. This week we're back in the eastern Ukraine, peering over the border at what looks like an invasion force.

inkl Originals · Dec 11, 2021

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 4 December 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell has finally got her day in court. America is still grappling with the aftermath of billionaire child abuser Jeffrey Epstein's death. This week we warily re-entered the sordid and perplexing affair of child-trafficking right under the noses of the country's elites.

inkl Originals · Dec 4, 2021