Trading places

A week of decadal shifts, and a new weekly letter.

Section of the Miller Atlas, containing trade routes to Portuguese Brazil, Lopo Homem and Antoio de Holanda, the Miller Atlas, 1519, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

In this week’s Not in Dispatches, instead of our usual format, we are trialling a new weekly letter from our Chief Strategist, Michael Feller, on the week’s developments.

Our aim is to not …