Weekly policy briefings

The first 15 minutes of each class meeting will be a weekly policy briefing, "This happened this week" (since our class is Monday of course what we mean is "this past week"). What you brief is not tied to your white paper but what actually happened in the world that affects your PP5182-nation.

Each week a different team of three students gives a five-minute ministerial briefing (the 5 minutes is a strict upper bound). You were called by the Minister's office just one hour ago; you have five minutes to speak. Your job is not to tell the Minister everything. It is to tell the Minister what they most need to know.

1. The rest of the class plays Minister's staff and queries the team after.
2. Attract good marks for being clear; prioritise sharply; make good judgement; emphasise precision and brevity — don't overspeak.
3. This is intended to be light-touch. It is a recurring, low-stakes professional exercise. Don't put effort into making it a polished presentation — at most two slides but preferably none: What happened? Why does it matter? What should policymakers be watching on this?