A $48 Million Paint Job: What the Reflecting Pool Teaches Us About Leadership

Half a million wait under siege in Sudan while the world watches a peace deal die with a tanker crew, in a strait carrying a fifth of its oil. Kyiv's run out of interceptors. 15 days, 3 chokepoints.

The US and Iran signed a memorandum ending their war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, even as Sudan's RSF besieged El Obeid and Ukraine launched a 40-day strike campaign on Russia's oil economy.

The Gulf ceasefire is now a fiction both sides maintain for cover, with global energy the hostage. Plus Ukraine's deep strikes into Russia, the Chornobyl hit, Sudan, and the week's WPS read.

Latvia’s PM Evika Siliņa resigns, In Britain, Keir Starmer is still in Downing Street. Just about.

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This Week's Brief: The Thesaurus is the New Tomahawk

Epic Fury in Iran & The Middle East

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ITV sells its channels and ITVX to Comcast's Sky for £1.6 billion, creating a broadcaster built to rival Netflix. McCall, Strong, Nandy and Dinenage now decide if the deal survives regulators.

Mexican-American Maria Montserrat Alvarado, has been named as Head of Vatican Communications. It makes her the first woman to hold the role in the institution's history.

The most expensive oversight of the week

Davos 2026

The Award Goes To, Snap Elections, Tweaking Rules, Banning Grok, AI Needs 10 Yottaflops & Conflict Watch

Enterprise Fairness Vs Public disservice

Harvard's Male Bastion, LLMs Stereotypes, AI Regulations, Natural Disasters & Never ending Conflicts

EU’s AI Ambitions, BoE’s AI Bubble, Japan’s New Boss, Nobel Prizes & Quiet Climate Withdrawals

Washington renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool twice. The algae came back both times. What I told the 70th Commonwealth Leaders Forum why that is a leadership problem, not a plumbing one.

Meet Anita Orbán: The diplomat who predicted Russia's playbook and is now being asked to dismantle it.

A Rorschach blot test

Youth are polarising globally on women's leadership

Philippines-China & the South China Sea

Edition 94

Today marks 41 days of Liz Truss being Prime Minister of these great isles. And crikey in that short time, she’s managed more U-Turns and national economic destruction

Edition 69

Linda Nosková wobbled, and squandered five championship points before regaining her nerve and beating fellow Czech Karolína Muchová to become the youngest Wimbledon champion since 2011.

57 countries met in Colombia to agree on how to phase out oil, gas, and coal. The US, China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia were not among them.

Liquid Content - Finding Our Center In The Chaos

The Chief Brief's Chef's Table & Not Your Nonna's Kitchen

Goop's Kiss-Cam cash in, a new stargazer in chief, gene testing women & Israel's family & friends pivot & pressure

Trust. Accountability. Inclusion. The Official Climate Credentials for Belém.

June 6, 2025

May 23, 2025

Washington renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool twice. The algae came back both times. What I told the 70th Commonwealth Leaders Forum why that is a leadership problem, not a plumbing one.

From Budapest to Rome to Beijing: How Europe’s Political Certainties Collapsed in One Week

Clash of the Headlines: UNGA Drama Meets Keep Calm & Carry On

Hot Summer, Hotter Headlines & What to do about a problem like Putin?

28 February 2025

December 6, 2024

Let's call this - The Chief Brief 2.0

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