Today’s view of the political landscape from GoodStrat.com.

Madrid, 12th March 2026.

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PART ONE

Based on current events as of March 2026, compiling a comprehensive, global list of politicians under suspicion of breaking laws requires noting that “suspicion” often stems from ongoing investigations, indictments, or international warrants rather than convictions. These cases span corruption, war crimes, interference with law enforcement, and more. I’ve prioritised by prominence (e.g., heads of state first), severity of allegations (e.g., international crimes over domestic probes), and recency/impact. Note that many U.S. cases involve investigations by the Department of Justice under the Trump administration, which critics have described as politically motivated. This is not an exhaustive list, as investigations can evolve rapidly.

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THE AFTERLIFE BRIEFING

(formerly titled The Saturday Scene*)*

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Where history’s most troublesome minds return to review the week’s political disasters.

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OPENING

Studio lights rise. Dramatic music that sounds suspiciously like a funeral march remixed for television.

Martyn Rhisiart Jones sits behind a polished desk.

Behind him, a giant screen flashes headlines:

WAR, SANCTIONS, DIPLOMACY, OUTRAGE, DENIAL

Seven historical figures sit around a circular table.

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Lila de Alba

In the digital colosseum where data evangelists duel with dashboards and AI prophets peddle predictive panaceas, Martyn Jones arrives not with a sword, but a seltzer bottle. His latest tome, Laughing@Data.Com (self-published, 2025), is a riotous romp through the absurdities of the IT industry, a book that skewers the sacred cows of big data, machine learning, and that perennial favorite, “digital transformation,” with the precision of a Welsh coal miner’s pickaxe. Jones, a grizzled data architect who’s consulted for everyone from Adidas to the UN (and survived to tell the tale), channels the spirit of Swiftian satire into a manifesto that’s equal parts Wired’s gadget glee, CIO’s boardroom battle cry, and FT Weekend’s urbane eyebrow-raise. If Dave Trott’s advertising yarns met Stewart Lee’s stand-up scorn in a Zurich banker’s lounge, this would be the offspring: witty, worldly, and wonderfully wicked.

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