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• Learning from hostages – six secrets to resilience for these difficult times

  By rachelbriggs on December 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Reflecting on the lessons I’ve learned from the former hostages I’ve gotten to known, here are six secrets of resilience to help get us all through a difficult winter ahead.

• Peter Turchin: the ecologist using datasets and models from history to predict the future

  By rachelbriggs on November 16, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  What happened when the man whose specialist subject was Mexican bean beetles turned his attention to human beings…

• I’m delighted to be featured in the top ten articles of the 2010s from Chatham House

  By rachelbriggs on November 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Thrilled to be featured in the top 10 articles of the 2010s from the Chatham House archive. Not bad company to be keeping.

• A Gentleman in Moscow – the only ‘hostage’ story I’ve ever enjoyed

  By rachelbriggs on November 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I rarely re-read a book, but when a dear friend returned my copy of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, I just couldn’t resist. It’s perhaps my favorite novel of all time. Maybe. But definitely the only ‘hostage’ story… Read More ›

• Dear President Biden, You’re right that the soul of the nation was on the ballot. Here are five commitments you should make to hostages and their families to show you are serious about protecting Americans and reestablishing US leadership in the world

  By rachelbriggs on November 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Throughout the Presidential campaign, you told us this the soul of the nation was on the ballot. As President, your most important job is to protect Americans. How you treat American hostages and their families will tell us a lot about your values as Commander in Chief.

• face the bitter truth: we are two countries, and neither of them is going to be conquered or disappear anytime soon

  By rachelbriggs on November 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Helpful piece from George Packer in the Atlantic on the entrenched divisions within the US – and why they are not going away anytime soon… Really helpful background to what we are seeing as the election results come in.

• the joy of burnout

  By rachelbriggs on November 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve just finished The Joy of Burnout: How the end of the world can be a new beginning by Dr Dina Glouberman. I didn’t agree with every word, but it was refreshing to get a positive take on something so debilitating, and becoming more common.

• these are a few of my favorite (dc) things

  By rachelbriggs on August 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I like raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens as much as the next child of the 1980s, having spent every Christmas holiday re-watching Julie Andrews bring joy and music to the Austrian Alps. I never planned my viewing in… Read More ›

• the fall of the big men

  By rachelbriggs on June 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Today I joined the debate on Global Dashboard as part of Scenarios Week. We have known for generations that our old models of leadership are not fit for purpose. A once in a multi-generation pandemic offers a global leadership control… Read More ›

• shelter – our most important currency in these difficult times

  By rachelbriggs on June 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I hope today can feel like a new day. I am up early, blinds drawn, sipping coffee from my favorite mug, the sun peeping over the foliage outside my window and landing on my tired face. I slept fitfully last… Read More ›

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