Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, public historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

“i didn’t really like the way we have been treated” / Members' letter #2

“i didn’t really like the way we have been treated” / Members' letter #2

Brexiteers got their wish, and then some: Immigrants are fleeing the UK in its largest population loss since WW2. And other things worth reading.

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America is living through our past. Could it also be our future?

America is living through our past. Could it also be our future?

From pre-war Paris to today's Washington D.C., an eerie echo

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
"I'm not optimistic, I am determined."

"I'm not optimistic, I am determined."

Happy new year, such as it is

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Isabelle Roughol
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018 | Reasons to hope (a 2020 review)

018 | Reasons to hope (a 2020 review)

Because if there's ever a moment for an absolutely not rational belief that things might be okay, it's surely the new year. (This bonus episode is a compilation of hopeful moments in the first two short seasons of Borderline. Yes, I could find some.) Music by

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"It always starts with a map and a glass of whisky"

"It always starts with a map and a glass of whisky"

How to become an explorer, with Reza Pakravan

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Borderline
017 | Reza Pakravan | How to become an explorer

017 | Reza Pakravan | How to become an explorer

Reza Pakravan has every kid's dream job title – explorer. He just released on Amazon Prime, his latest travel series "The World's Most Dangerous Borders" for which he traveled uninterrupted the width of Africa, across areas any foreign ministry generally tells you to keep clear

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"i am as lonely as an iceberg, an egg, a half carafe of wine" / Members' letter #1

"i am as lonely as an iceberg, an egg, a half carafe of wine" / Members' letter #1

a tight curation of things worth paying attention to

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016 | Ian Bremmer | The world in 2021

016 | Ian Bremmer | The world in 2021

A continued pandemic and fresh vaccines, a new US president with old problems, China triumphant and mistrusted, Brexit done at last, and global institutions on the fritz... Let's take a world tour of the geopolitics we can expect in 2021, with Eurasia Group founder and president Ian Bremmer.

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