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Affairs

Stand and be counted

Getting an accurate idea of turnout at protest marches is vital to our understanding of the public mood. We meet the people with the clickers.

  • Issue #117
  • 4 min read
Stand and be counted
Affairs

Diplomacy

We meet Denmark’s ambassador to Silicon Valley and find out how Lithuania brands itself abroad.

  • Issue #117
  • 4 min read
Diplomacy
Politics

Cometh the hour

Still basking in the warm afterglow of April’s peaceful revolution, Armenia’s prime minister Nikol Pashinyan knows the hard work starts now. Can he deliver what his people expect?

  • Issue #116
  • 9 min read
Cometh the hour
Politics

Social skills

Lebanon may be struggling with corruption and subject to foreign interference but the positivity and creativity of its populace are helping it to move forward.

  • Issue #116
  • 6 min read
Illustrated tree diagram showing Lebanon's social structure, economy, and daily life across multiple interconnected branches and levels.
Diplomacy

Diplomacy

Indonesia’s ambassador to New Zealand, Brazil’s Japanese descendants are heading east and political trolling on Twitter.

  • Issue #116
  • 4 min read
Red brick diplomatic building with white trim and Indonesian and Polish flags flying from a pole
Diplomacy

Full steam ahead

Finland’s ambassador to Poland can take the heat, whether relaxing in her sauna or building relations with regional leaders.

  • Issue #115
  • 3 min read
Full steam ahead
Affairs

Diplomacy

Promoting the Spanish tongue, Finnish education models and the Nobel Peace prize winner whose women’s movement helped end Liberia’s civil war.

  • Issue #113
  • 3 min read
Diplomacy
Affairs

Diplomacy

How the UK is fostering community policing in Beirut, plus an optimistic outlook from Afghanistan’s ambassador to Norway.

  • Issue #112
  • 4 min read
Diplomacy
Affairs

Diplomacy

The man keeping cultural artefacts safe for the UK, Canada tries to hash out an international treaty and the special relationships you don’t expect.

  • Issue #111
  • 4 min read
Diplomacy
Culture

The opener

From Seoul's "3.3.3" brushing rule to Oslo's icy pavements and London's impatient commuters, the world's cities reveal themselves through their smallest, strangest daily rituals.

  • Issue #111
  • 5 min read
The opener

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