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Year in Review: T-intersection

Irregular: Looking back

Week signals: A Christmas corollary

Beg, borrow, and deal

It’s not a lie if you believe it

Blockade and tackling

Seeing if it sticks

Heads in the sand

Week signals: Sphere of missing out

Fly by night

Pyrrhus of the Caribbean

The firing line

All that and a bag of chips

Recording and transcript: December private roundtable

Cultivating resistance

Irregular: Does China or the US rule the world?

Week signals: The strategy that didn’t bark in the night

Triumf over karma

When hell freezes over

Running down the clock

Dog-whistling past the graveyard

Your money or their lives

Irregular: Ukraine – War or Peace?

Week signals: From pirates to PMSCs

Yermak the knife

Budget crunch

Internal affairs

Reminder: December private roundtable

A new type of great power relations

Screwing up the courage

Week signals: Slipping on a banana republic

28-dimensional chess

Single core processor

Chicken and hawks

Invitation: December private roundtable

The best-laid plans

History lessons

Irregular: The butterfly effect

Week signals: Filling in the blanks

Point of snow return

The pot thickens

Mutually assumed destruction

Lest he forget

Forty days later

Week signals: The young and the leftward

And not a drop to drink

A cloud over Donbas

Outta left field

Recording and transcript: November private roundtable

The party's over it

Africa’s great white dope

Week signals: Back on the mainland

Threading a needle in a haystack

He said, Xi said

Fray at the edge

Paying a visitor

Reminder: November private roundtable

Don’t cry for Milei

Week signals: White House down

Down to rare earths

Early warning

Invitation: November private roundtable

About time

New records, old constraints

The real thing

Week signals: Fifty shades of political coercion

Buddha and pest

Crude attempt

Pride and soy

Plus ça change, plus c'est Lecornu

Alter egos

Week signals: War and peace and prizes

A chill wind

Eyes on the prize

Fake it till you break it

Recording and transcript: October private roundtable

Last chance salon

Always so negative

Week signals: A sceptic’s guide to peace in Gaza

Tipping point

No re-Greta’s

Reminder: October Private Roundtable

Shutdowns, putdowns, shakedowns

Return to Mar-a-Gaza

Sandu in the gears

Irregular: The Words of the World

Week signals: A different league

Coming to a home near you

Youth in Asia

Yada yada

Russia’s roulette

America’s lost talent

Week signals: Navel gazing

Chips on the table

Invitation: October Private Roundtable

Trial and terror

A dead end

The King and AI

The Gulf between

Irregular: a month of change, and of continuity

Week signals: The kids are alright

Best pals

No war but the culture war

With allies like these

Après lui

Ishiba served cold

Recording and Transcript: September Private Roundtable

Week signals: The state advances

War on words

The forever warlord

The power and the glory

Flying blind

Reminder: September Private Roundtable

Modi crosses the Himalayas

Irregular: Art and a deal

Week signals: The major question

Probing for mush

Cambricon explosion

Pyrotechnics of the Caribbean

Inside an enigma

Week signals: The bigger picture

Invitation: September Private Roundtable

Hostage’s dilemma

Top of his game

Road from Damascus

When to fold 'em

Message from the High North

Week signals: The tsars align

By rook or by crook

All or nothing

Powell behind the throne

Irregular: Great Expectations

Re-opening the door

Icy reception

Week signals: What Putin wants

You break it, you keep it

Recording and Transcript: August Webinar

Time to meet

Face value

Cowboy and India

Reminder: August Private Roundtable

Tinker, tailor, fixer, spy

Week signals: The hype power

Liberation theology

De maximis

Ishmael’s accord

Invitation: August Private Roundtable

Von der Leyen acts the lamb

Nine-iron cudgel

Week signals: Technopolitics

That ship has sailed

Great Game of Grandfather Chicken

15 is the new 30

Loose change

On the chopping bloc

Week signals: The geopolitics of conspiracy

Unstable GENIUS

Abraham’s sacrifice

Open season

Off the hook

Around the world in 80 threats

Week signals: The Trump trade doctrine

Another day, another tariff

Tropic thunder

Recording and Transcript: July Webinar

The drugs don't work

Yours insincerely

Dim and distant

Week signals: Visions of decline

Interdependence day

A house divided

Free and open to interpretation

Deadline on arrival

Live Briefing: Israel-Iran, NATO Summit, Tariffs, Congo-Rwanda Peace Deal

Elbows down

Week signals: Bunk and bunkers

Debt and taxes

Return to abnormal

Don't know what they're doing

Live Briefing: Israel-Iran & Global Risks

Crossing the hardliners

Nobody puts Khamenei in a corner

Week signals: Three unwise men

Half-cocked, unsure

Winner's curse

History repeating

Truce or dare

A deeper hole

Week signals: Another day in Paradise

Old and reckless

Treading water

Just a lotta baloney!

Newsom rises to the top

Vicious circle

Recording and Transcript: June Webinar

Week signals: All that Xi wants

Keep your friends close

Xi still won’t talk

Lee from behind

Tehran out of road?

Along came a spider

War and/or Peace

Week signals: Networks and moats

Not out of the woulds

Beyond the call for duties

Invitation: June Private Roundtable

Learning the hard way

Bear trap

Blinkmanship

Week signals: The truth of uncertainty

Ceasefire, ceasewater

Borrowed time

Next Webinar: 2 / 3 June

Warning shots

Speak loudly and carry a small carrot

Pony up

Week signals: Djakarta is coming

Magic carpetbagger

Webinar Recording

[RESEND] Istanbul (not gonna happen)

Istanbul (not gonna happen)

False profits

A big load of bull

You’re gonna get tired of win-win cooperation

Week signals: Déjà vu all over again

Everyone's business

Irregular: Victory Day

Training on the parade

The sum of partition

The tide goes out

Big bubble in little China

Week signals: A voting machine

Waltz out of the fray

Irregular: 100 Days That Shook the World

A consuming fire

Reminder: Next Monthly Webinars

One hundred famous views of Donald

51st past the post

Last rites

Week signals: Basic instinct

Oh, stop it

No cards, no cry

If this ain't hardball

The buck drops

Start at the top

President yells at cloud

Xi'll be coming round the mountain

Computer says no

Week signals: Rebellion without a cause

'Nobody has any idea'

Wrong-footed, wrong-headed

Mutually assured downturn

Flipping the board

The coming storm

Week signals: MAGA Carta

Seoul custody

Liberty or death?

Stealing a March on April

Paradise lost

Le Pen’s pal

Mine not yours

Week signals: A dumb theory

All tip and no iceberg

The Art of No Deal

Dog acts

Signal in the noise

Next Monthly Webinar

Storm of the nations

Week signals: If you go down to Bretton Woods today

Hedge or labyrinth?

Power move

Present at the destruction

Phone a friend

Red Sea cross purposes

Week signals: The missing piece

Bending the truce

Metal as anything

Truce or dare

Irregular: The geopolitics of losing money

Not your average bear market

Carney and barker

Week signals: A reverse-reverse Nixon theory

War of the American Succession

Slamming the brakes

Making great television

Crying tariffs

Starmer reborn

Irregular: What’s the deal with Trump?

Week signals: Endgame

Trump and circumstance

Tempest in a tariff

Rare earths, raw deal

US versus them

Gute Fahrt!

Week signals: A world with three poles

Strait face

Make Putin Appear Generous Again

Stabbed in the front

Irregular: Enterprising solutions

Détente in the desert

Forging ahead

Week signals: The empire strikes forward

Just the three of us

Deal with it

In from the cold

Next roundtable: Monday 24 February

Beach closed

Reciprocity for disaster

Irregular: Flooding the Zone

Week signals: Revolting things

Losers and haters

Waiting for a package deal

Mar-a-Gaza

Handwringing at ten paces

Make Avocado Great Again

Week signals: Round the mulberry bush

Tollbooth diplomacy

Snag for the party

Wafer-thin

Nordic measuring contest

Americas first

Week signals: An empire, if you can keep it

Route canal

Getting to nyet

Hitting the roof

Reminder: Private Roundtable Discussion

[Corrected] Carpe Donald

Carpe Donald

Trump and dump

Week signals: The long and short of it

Unstable genie

No peace of cake

Last chance for Yoon

What has been will be again

Fire and Ice

Irregular: Inaugurating the Geopolitical New Year

Week signals: Blaze new world

The Year Ahead: Out of the frying pan