The before times that led to now
Hello from Sydney and New York. It's the week of spring bacchanal festivals of Purim, Holi, and St Patrick's day. We hope you got some feasting and good...
Innocence is over
“Europe’s future should not be decided in Washington or Moscow… the innocence of these 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall is over.” Yes, we’re...
For all the tea in China
Hello, and welcome to our 33rd dispatch. We are struggling with some of the weighty questions hanging over global political economy. We’d love if you would...
Europe edition
Hello readers, This is a late and short dispatch; it’s been a very long week in crises. Below are a few thoughts what the US-Europe hostilities in Munich...
Organizing around and without the US
Hello readers, We skipped last week's newsletter to focus on getting the "Polycrisis 2025" year opener newsletter out on Phenomenal World. It came out around...
Who does what?
Hello, and welcome to the 29th edition of the Dispatch. Tim, Lara and I are working on the first Polycrisis essay for 2025; identifying the themes and issues...
Capitulation
Hello and welcome to our 28th Dispatch, and the first for 2025. In a few days the world will change and we will be flooded with increasingly dismaying news...
No one knows nothing...help us?
It’s now five years since Covid began to change the world. What changed and what remained the same in global political economy of climate? That was the...
Pluralism, panels and... polycrisis
Welcome to the 26th edition of the Polycrisis Dispatch. It has been a busy couple of weeks in the world, and for us. Tim’s industrial odyssey is continuing...
Finance, tariffs, and cars
Hello and welcome to the 25th Dispatch. Tim is now in Mexico after visiting Brazil; but this is holiday time, so it’s mostly me (Kate) and a bit of input...
Dispatch from Brazil G20
Hello and welcome to the 24th edition of the Polycrisis Dispatch. Tim wrote most of this while in Rio during the G20 this week, and is now in Bahia. Our...
The climate finance COP
Hello and welcome to the 23rd edition of the Dispatch. Tim is heading off to Brazil for the G20 and a holiday, and the excellent Lara Merling is going to be...
Tensions and contradictions
Early thoughts on the election, mostly about cost-of-living.
Seeing like an Asset Manager with Brett Christophers
Last week, we listened to a brilliant conversation between Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze, moderated by Kate Aronoff at the New School in New york....
Magic Pony, Groundhog Day
Welcome to our 20th Dispatch. It’s quite a time. The IMF/World Bank annual meetings in DC (Tim was there, where he spoke on a ‘making the world order safe...
Electrify everywhere: Renewable energy trade edition
Greetings and welcome to our 19th edition. There was no Dispatch last week as we published a big Polycrisis essay-newsletter on the new, green “Marshall...
Power and Powerlessness
Welcome to our 18th edition, coming after a bit of a gap due to travel, illness, and the hecticness of Climate Week/UNGA events. Tim spoke at a few panels,...
Europe must rage against the dying of the light
Welcome to edition 17 of our Dispatch. This week we are looking at Draghi’s recommendations to keep the EU competitive and safe; plus the fall in oil prices...
Geometry of Fear: Jake Sullivan meets Xi
Hello and welcome to the 16th edition of our weekly-test-dark-mode email. This week: our takeaways on the China-US back channel talks, revealed to have been...
'Sinews of War & Trade' bookclub kicks off soon
In about an hour, in fact. Hello, this is not our 16th edition - we're skipping the Dispatch this week, as we work on a version of our piece on "Country...