Past issues

Week of 2 November 2026

• AI · No. 6 Following AI chips through customs: where the compute really goes 8 pieces · 1h 50 of reading

Week of 26 October 2026

• Geopolitics · No. 5 Wood for war: how Wagner was paid in Central African forest 8 pieces · 1h 42 of reading
• Science · No. 1 An AI proved the quasi-Riemann hypothesis. Mathematicians take stock 6 pieces · 1h 00 of reading
• Science · No. 2 How the malaria parasite slips into a blood cell, seen up close 6 pieces · 1h 13 of reading
• Geopolitics · No. 6 Salmon from the desert: the politics behind Xinjiang's fish farms 8 pieces · 1h 30 of reading
• Energy & Climate · No. 4 Pemex's oil spills, counted three different ways 8 pieces · 2h 06 of reading
• Defence · No. 4 Thailand's air war on the Cambodian border, sortie by sortie 6 pieces · 1h 03 of reading
• Macro · No. 6 Who really gained from Papua New Guinea's food tax cut 8 pieces · 1h 25 of reading
• Energy & Climate · No. 3 Who Killed Offshore Wind? 5 pieces · 57 min of reading
• AI · No. 5 How Chinese companies talk about recursive self-improvement 8 pieces · 2h 30 of reading
• Geopolitics · No. 4 “Secure and controllable”: How Beijing is writing Europe out of its systems 8 pieces · 1h 42 of reading
• Macro · No. 5 How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? 8 pieces · 1h 26 of reading
• Defence · No. 3 A debrief with Ukraine’s soldiers 5 pieces · 58 min of reading

Week of 19 October 2026

• Every theme · No. 10 Portraits of the Sacrificed Generation of Donbass 17 pieces · 4h 14 of reading

Week of 12 October 2026

• Every theme · No. 9 European defence against the national bureaucratic-industrial complex 25 pieces · 5h 56 of reading

Week of 5 October 2026

• Every theme · No. 8 "China Is Killing Open Global Trade" 15 pieces · 3h 58 of reading

Week of 28 September 2026

• Every theme · No. 7 The plunging price of thought 25 pieces · 6h 31 of reading

Week of 21 September 2026

• Every theme · No. 6 I Went to Kyrgyzstan to Find China’s Silent Nomads 16 pieces · 6h 25 of reading

Week of 14 September 2026

• Every theme · No. 5 Things Seen in Taliban Country 18 pieces · 4h 11 of reading

Week of 7 September 2026

• Every theme · No. 4 In Venezuela, Trump opens the era of American recolonisation 13 pieces · 4h 02 of reading

Week of 31 August 2026

• Every theme · No. 3 Slow Read No. 3 13 pieces · 3h 37 of reading
• Every theme · No. 2 Slow Read No. 2 15 pieces · 4h 38 of reading

Week of 24 August 2026

• Every theme · No. 1 Slow Read No. 1 30 pieces · 9h 28 of reading