Briefing Room 29.11.25

Welcome back to the Briefing Room, our weekly subscriber-only update. That is, for news junkies, what a complex craft beer from a microbrewery is for your average hipster. A sign that their tastes are both superior and deliciously obscure.

This week, the hoppy notes of the news include a faint pang of Guinea-Bissau, where yet another coup has rocked the West African nation, and a bouquet of Myanmar, where we check in on the latest developments in the Civil War.

Then it's finally down to the sediments at the bottom of the glass, and that would be comprised of the fallout from Ecuador's recent shock referendum result. And yes, that is the last time I will use such a tortured analogy in these openings.