2026

234 posts

• 29 Oct The red line Takaichi crossed: a year of fallout from her Taiwan remarks
• 28 Oct The first term away from home
• 27 Oct Dengue vaccine reaches the wet season
• 26 Oct 'Declining' Chinese language: what happened to our language?
• 25 Oct The Louvre closed early: France's second weekend of protest

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2025

185 posts

• 31 Dec 2025 closes and the new year begins
• 29 Dec The days between and the year’s last quiet
• 28 Dec Words of the year, and the mood they catch
• 27 Dec The year's ledger: the accounts of 2025
• 25 Dec The day itself and the rituals of the turning week

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2024

90 posts

• 30 Dec The last farewell: Jimmy Carter and the longest American life
• 21 Dec Shutdown that almost was: Washington’s week of the spending fight
• 18 Dec December, and the year's last light
• 18 Dec The Fed's December cut and the caution that came with it
• 16 Dec Berlin's coalition falls and the early election takes its date

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