Note: 22 January 2026 @ 12:50 PM

On refection I find I’ve changed my mind about the weight I put behind Mark Carney’s speech at Davos. Beyond the often one-sided Western narrative about Russian aggression in Ukraine and the risks it poses to global security, Mark Carney’s speech felt like a marker of sorts — one we may look back on as signalling a significant shift in global geopolitics. Perhaps the end of the unipolar world…