Making sense of a changing world

Writing about Russia’s war on Ukrainians

Breaking down demographic, economic, and generational trends with Neil Howe. Featuring podcasts, videos, Q&A sessions, and more.

European political economy and geoeconomics

Observations, out-takes and my data library

Kenny Farquharson on Scotland. Politics. Culture. Essays. Photography. From an award-winning Times newspaper columnist.

democracy and dictatorship, Russia and Ukraine, America and Europe, local and global, past and present

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

It's Ed West's sub stack

Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor. Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs. Johns Hopkins University.

The daily client brief of Geopolitical Strategy – a specialist advisory firm helping leaders understand the geopolitical forces reshaping business and world affairs.

Niall Ferguson's Time Machine applies historical perspective to contemporary problems in economics and politics, because the further back you look, the further ahead you can see.

A conversation about technology, ideas, people and their convergence in contemporary war and competition. Also covering issues related to the war in Ukraine, Chinese aggression against Taiwan and Indo-Pacific defence.

Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.

Join a European 'historian of the present' to follow history as it happens

Substack looking at public opinion trends in politics, business and culture

Unexpected stories from the underbelly of the modern world