Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. Ex- LinkedIn News, Le Figaro, The Guardian, The Cambodia Daily. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

How to raise global teens and be kinder to migrants / Members' letter #15

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Welcome to the new Borderline

Welcome to the new Borderline

Dear listeners, readers and members, I am chuffed to bits (yes, the Brits got me) to be introducing the new home of Borderline at www.borderlinepod.com. This started out as a because-I'm-bored lockdown project. Unoriginal, I know. But Borderline has bigger ambitions now. This new site is

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"You don’t have to be a globalist to want other countries to stop sucking away your tax base"

"You don’t have to be a globalist to want other countries to stop sucking away your tax base"

An update on episodes 3 [https://borderline.ghost.io/episode-03-what-globalists-should-learn-from-nationalists-with-hassan-damluji/] & 32 [https://borderline.ghost.io/episode-32-hassan-damluji/] with Hassan Damluji I asked Hassan Damluji, deputy director for the Middle East at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and author of The Responsible Globalist, for some updated thoughts on two topics

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A passport is the best and most loaded thing you own

A passport is the best and most loaded thing you own

I can count my life in passports. The one that sent me to live abroad for the first time and propelled me into adulthood. The one that saw me through my 20s on  routes like MCI-DEN-LAX-TPE-PNH. The one where I'm a grown up tech exec spending more time

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"These are our neighbours, let them go!" / Members' letter #14

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032 | Hassan Damluji | The century-long project to build a global nation

032 | Hassan Damluji | The century-long project to build a global nation

What would it take to create on a planetary level the same fuzzy feelings people have for their country? Let’s start with taxes… If globalists want to build a more united world, they need to look at how nation-states did it – at a smaller scale – in the last couple

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America may be back, but the world wasn't waiting

America may be back, but the world wasn't waiting

Tech entrepreneurship has exploded around the world, and Silicon Valley is now but one of many models. A conversation with venture capitalist Christopher Schroeder.

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031 | Christopher Schroeder | How tech entrepreneurship exploded beyond Silicon Valley

031 | Christopher Schroeder | How tech entrepreneurship exploded beyond Silicon Valley

America may be back, but the world wasn’t waiting on it. Venture capitalist Chris Schroeder travels the world to invest in emerging markets. To the entrepreneurs he meets, Silicon Valley is just one of many models, China is everywhere and South-to-South exchanges are constant. To succeed in this distributed

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