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Kim Jong-un on the Siberian express
Why the North Korean leader went to meet Vladamir Putin in Siberia.
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Sensemaker: Is it over?
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Open News Special with Gayle Smith
This is a digital-only ThinkIn. On Wednesday evenings, Tortoise journalists have a weekly news meeting to chew over the live news agenda. It’s a meeting that’s open to our members – a chance for you to have your say and propose angles that we, and others, are missing. If you have an idea for a story that hasn’t got the attention it deserves, this is the time to pitch it. This week we’re joined by Gayle Smith, CEO of the ONE Campaign and (RED), former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from April-December 2021, Coordinator for the Global Covid-19 Response and Health Security in the U.S. State Department. Join us for a conversation about vaccine diplomacy, ending preventable disease by 2030, and holding governments accountable for equitable vaccine distribution.
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Sensemaker: Omicron goes global
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Exclusive: Despite boosters, surplus vaccines remain
New data reveals the boosters versus global vaccine equality debate is largely bogus
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Sensemaker Special: Boosters vs vaccinating the world
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Johnson is lying about variants and vaccines
Omicron is the predictable consequence of political failure. Until the international community gets serious about vaccine sharing, there will be ever nastier Covid mutations
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Sensemaker: Covid in Europe
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Europe’s pandemic disaster
In this second despatch from Romania, Lara Spirit reports on the political and structural collapse that has thwarted vaccine rollout – and the lessons for the rest of the world
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Kim Jong-un on the Siberian express
Why the North Korean leader went to meet Vladamir Putin in Siberia.
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The Arms Race: Many miles to go
This week, Tortoise launched its campaign to help spread vaccinations around the world. Here’s what we’re planning to do next
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The Arms Race: vaccine failure at Carbis Bay, the G7’s deadly sin
Last month the richest nations on the planet squared up to its greatest public health challenge, how to vaccinate every adult everywhere against Covid. They failed. The story of how and why they came up catastrophically short is a litany of political parochialism, low ambition and poor organisation – with potentially dreadful consequences
Editor’s Voicemail
The arms race
We’re putting together a public campaign to vaccinate the world by the end of next year. How might it work? While it’s still early days, here’s our current thinking
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V is for vaccine
We’re starting a campaign to make sure that the promise Boris Johnson made ahead of the G7 Summit wasn’t an empty one – and that the UK leads the drive to vaccinate the world
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When a billion isn’t enough
The world’s richest countries have promised a billion vaccine doses to poorer nations. It sounds a lot. Is it?
Editor’s Voicemail
New world disorder
A different set of threats has arisen in recent years, exposing the weaknesses of the international rules-based order. Next week, the leaders of the G7 nations will be meeting in Cornwall – and we’ll be looking to them for answers
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Open News Special with Gayle Smith
This is a digital-only ThinkIn. On Wednesday evenings, Tortoise journalists have a weekly news meeting to chew over the live news agenda. It’s a meeting that’s open to our members – a chance for you to have your say and propose angles that we, and others, are missing. If you have an idea for a story that hasn’t got the attention it deserves, this is the time to pitch it. This week we’re joined by Gayle Smith, CEO of the ONE Campaign and (RED), former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from April-December 2021, Coordinator for the Global Covid-19 Response and Health Security in the U.S. State Department. Join us for a conversation about vaccine diplomacy, ending preventable disease by 2030, and holding governments accountable for equitable vaccine distribution.
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The Arms Race: what next?
This is now a digital-only ThinkIn.Tortoise’s The Arms Race campaign has been calling for equal global access to vaccines. Last week finally saw Biden convene global leaders in an emergency summit. There were new pledges, but were they enough? Britain has millions of spare doses, and has delivered a mere fraction of existing pledges, so why was Boris Johnson a no-show? Our campaign’s coalition partners will regroup to consider the historical summit and – most crucially – what we must do now to prevent further avoidable deaths.
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The Arms Race: how many more people will die from Covid-19?
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A ThinkIn with Gordon Brown
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Sensemaker Live: How can we vaccinate the world?
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A ThinkIn with Nadhim Zahawi, Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment
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Sensemaker: Is it over?
What just happened
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Sensemaker: Omicron goes global
What just happened
Exclusive: Despite boosters, surplus vaccines remain
New data reveals the boosters versus global vaccine equality debate is largely bogus
Sensemaker
Sensemaker Special: Boosters vs vaccinating the world
What just happened
Slow View
Johnson is lying about variants and vaccines
Omicron is the predictable consequence of political failure. Until the international community gets serious about vaccine sharing, there will be ever nastier Covid mutations
Sensemaker
Sensemaker: Covid in Europe
What just happened
Slow View
Europe’s pandemic disaster
In this second despatch from Romania, Lara Spirit reports on the political and structural collapse that has thwarted vaccine rollout – and the lessons for the rest of the world
Urgent call on the G20 for global vaccine delivery
Slow View
“Now it’s a war”
The plight of Romania – suffering horrendously from Covid – shows that getting vaccine doses to the countries that need them is only start of the challenge