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In Defence of the Regional Mall, Against Everyone Who Thinks It Should Have Died Already
A contrarian case for the much-maligned air-conditioned cathedral, which is, in operational terms, doing more civic work than the people who write about its demise are willing to credit it for.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 4
In Praise of the Meeting That Could Have Been an Email, Actually
A defence of the much-derided fifty minute meeting, which is, on closer inspection, doing the work the email was structurally unable to do.
By Lena Holloway
OpinionJun 3
The Tyranny of the Good Press Release
Why the regional policy class has, for two cycles, been writing better announcements than the announcements deserve, and what the over-investment has cost the underlying work.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3
In Praise of the Boring Conference
Why the regional conference circuit's best moments happen, increasingly, at the dullest events nobody wants to put on the highlight reel.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3
In Defence of the Uneventful Tuesday
Why a region whose self-image is built around dramatic moments needs to relearn the quieter discipline of the institutional weekday that nothing in particular is happening on.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3
The Man Who Sells Nostalgia to Oil Traders
What a particular Dubai shop tells us about a regional market for the lost world that the regional economy itself was, in part, responsible for losing.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3
Stop Calling It a Vision
Why the word has lost the meaning the strategy decks need it to carry, and what to use instead.
By Diego Arroyo
OpinionJun 3
The Friday Edit Is the Best Hour of the Week
Why one editor's late-Friday read of the week's pieces produces the texture of decision-making that no Monday morning meeting has ever quite reproduced.
By Diego Arroyo