About
What The Chancery is, and what it is for.
The Chancery reports on diplomacy, statecraft and geopolitics — the machinery of how states deal with each other, and what it tells us about where events are heading.
A chancery is the working office of an embassy: the room where cables are drafted, instructions are read, and the day’s events are turned into something a capital can act on. The name is the brief.
What we publish
We publish at three lengths, deliberately.
Briefings are short and event-driven — 200 to 400 words, published most days. They answer one question: what happened, and what does it signal? They are written to be read in a minute and to be useful immediately.
Analysis is medium-form, published weekly. A single development, placed in its strategic context, with an argument about what it means.
Long Reads are deeply reported essays on the structures beneath the headlines, published when a story warrants the space rather than on a schedule.
Why the three lengths
Most coverage of international affairs collapses into one register — either a headline with no context, or an essay that arrives a month after anyone needed it. Events move at different speeds, and so should the writing about them. A ministry statement needs 300 words the same day. A shift in how alliances are structured needs 3,000 words and several weeks.
Who writes it
The Chancery is an independent publication. Editorial decisions — what we cover, what we conclude — rest with the editor and with no one else. We take no funding from any government, party or interest with a stake in what we write about.
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Corrections, tips and disagreements are all welcome, and corrections are treated as the most important of the three. See our editorial standards for how we handle them.