Notes from the Gallery
A monthly review of the absurdities of the main geopolitical news trends around the world, mostly from the UK perspective, and mostly in terms of how this affects businesses and society.
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…June 2025
Summertime has arrived in the UK with a heatwave in time for Wimbledon but the living is definitely not easy…
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…May 2025
May has been another month of mayhem, mostly courtesy of one Donald J Trump but backed up with a supporting cast that includes Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and various other actors searching for a role. The fact that most of these crackpots won power through elections – to varying degrees – suggests that civil governance…
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…April 2025
April, as the poet TS Eliot noted, is the cruellest month. Markets around the world have been have been thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump’s trade war, while in Britain the month started with a triple whammy with sharp rises in council tax, energy bills and water rates…
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…March 2025
The fundamental problem of publishing a summary of all the March madness on 1st April is that it’s going to read like an April Fools story, but the joke is very much on the rest of us.
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…February 2025
February 2025 will chiefly be remembered as the month when the Western alliance, which is mainly between Europe and North America but also includes Australia and New Zealand, cracked wide open after 80 years of economic and military cooperation and domination.
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…January 2025
January has brought with it violent storms in Europe, wild fires in California, a new conflict in the DRC, not to mention the continuing war in Ukraine, and a strong sense that somewhere the four riders of the apocalypse are busy saddling up their horses.
Nessan Cleary 