An Orderly World Championships of Backgammon, Part 3
In the final installation of a three-part series, Jason reflects on his performance at the 2025 World Backgammon Championships and asks how we might “Make Speedgammon Great Again”.
An Orderly World Championships of Backgammon, Part 2
An overview of my participation in the World Championships of Backgammon: what does it mean to be thrown off one’s game, or to compete as a British player for the first time?
Avoiding the Disorder of Rival World Championships of Backgammon
The survival of the global backgammon community depends on an unified World Championships of Backgammon rather than fragmentation into rival institutions.
An Orderly World Championships of Backgammon
The continuities of the World Championships of Backgammon remain a lone spot of order, predictability, and community in our disordered international environment.
Freeze Libya’s financial transactions to end migration blackmail
The EU must cut funds to Libya until a unified government is in place. This will stop parts of the state using migration as blackmail while Turkey uses its own presence in the country to challenge Greek and Cypriot sovereignty in the Mediterranean.
Internationalize the Solution for Gaza and Iran
From Boston Globe: The US and its allies — not Israel — should handle Iran and Gaza. SUBHEADING: Now is time for something better than a ceasefire in the Middle East: lasting peace.
The art of risk
Jason Pack was interviewed by ‘Sigma’ one of the leading Magazines in the e-gaming space: In life, every move has meaning. This is the same in backgammon. One dice roll can flip fortunes in an instant, while the impacts of seemingly small decisions ripple over time, fundamentally changing the trajectory of the game.
RUSI Announces Partnership with Disorder Podcast
The Disorder Podcast - a top 20 UK Podcast currently co-produced by Goalhanger Podcasts - has recently partnered with RUSI.
What makes a martyr? Alexei Navalny shines a light on Vladimir Putin's evil tyranny.
What makes a martyr? Alexei Navalny shines a light on Vladimir Putin's evil tyranny.
Blame Netanyahu for Gaza, not ‘the Jews’
The Israeli prime minister’s failed, immoral policies are a deadly own goal – and they are pure neopopulism.
The Road to Middle East Peace Runs Through Doha
Bringing together Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to administer postwar Gaza could weaken Iranian and Russian regional influence. Jason Pack explores, in Foreign Press.
Is peace there for the taking? Jason Pack on Israel, Gaza, the Middle East and beyond
Andrew Keen and Jason Pack discuss the disorder in Israel, Gaza, the Middle East and beyond.
Terror and Tyranny have led Libya to a Biblical Catastrophe
It isn’t that no one cares about justice and human life, but that we have failed to confront the enemies of an ordered world. Jason Pack explores how the disaster in Libya, and other disparate daily catastrophes, are actually all symptoms of the Global Enduring Disorder.
Let’s Go Back to the Future to Reinvigorate the Backgammon World Championships
Jason Pack addresses recent proposals on the future of the Backgammon World Championships and suggests some alternative solutions to make Backgammon great again.
Prigozhin’s Abortive Coup Signals Open Season on Putin
The Russian autocrat joins a long line of rulers to find their personal armies turning on them. Jason Pack looks to the past and foretells the future as the dust settles from mercenary rebellion in Russia, in the Telegraph.
Russia’s Sexual Health Crisis Just Got Militarised
Russia is facing a spiralling sexual health crisis charged by the Kremlin's abandonment of marginalized groups, and this crisis is particularly acute in Russian prisons. As the Russian Army adopts Wagner Group's practice of prisoner recruits, is the crisis set to translate into military weakness on the frontlines? Jason Pack and Guy Fiennes explore.
Tunisia's slide into autocracy is following all too familiar a pattern
Neopopulism has led to democratic backsliding and a culture of paranoia. While on the scene for the Tunis Book Fair, Jason Pack surveys the Tunisian state of affairs.
Sudan Proves that the Only Thing Worse than Western Meddling is Western Absence
As the situation in Sudan escalates, it is clear that the root problem of contemporary Western foreign policy isn’t meddling too much; it’s meddling too little. Jason Pack explains in The Telegraph.
Georgia’s Options at the Abkhazian Border
Jason Pack and Lolita Brayman travel to the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia and mull over its unique history, and relationship with Russia on the one hand and Georgia on the other. What options does Tbilisi actually have on the Abkhaz Border?