Analysis and commentary, clearly labelled and distinct from reporting.
The Oval Office confrontation with Ukraine made explicit what Europe had spent decades avoiding: it must now pay for its own defence and decide what it stands for.
A decade into the attention economy, the evidence is that we gave away the scarcest thing we own. Reclaiming it is the defining personal project of the decade.
More people voted in 2024 than in any year in history, and in country after country they voted against incumbents. The message to the world’s leaders was blunt.
As 2024 was confirmed the hottest year on record, the climate conversation reached a strange impasse: the evidence is overwhelming, and the response is still a choice.
The most dangerous falsehoods of 2024 were not obviously false. They were plausible, sourced-looking and shareable, and that changed everything about what reporting is for.
The artificial intelligence tools flooding the workplace are less about replacing workers than about reorganising who is trusted to do what. That may be the real story.
The Paris Games were smaller, cheaper and more humane than the behemoths that came before. The closing ceremony was the right moment to ask whether that will last.
From the eclipse to the summer of brat, the defining moments of 2024 were events experienced through a million screens at once. That is changing what a shared moment means.
