Ok so it has precipitated an energy crisis. What I have not seen any useful analysis of is WHO the crisis benefits and what US interests it supports particularly when it comes to competition around emerging tech- which is very energy dependent.

Royal Mail was privatised 13 years ago. Since then prices have tripled, and the service is garbage. Another lesson of how privatisation never works. Nationalise the lot, don't pay a penny, they have already stolen enough.

On the up side no one got nuked last night so yay I guess?

Re-upping this because Saudi and now Kharg island infrastructure have been hit.

I really hope Trump had been playing Civilization VI but I don't think he has the patience for that sort of thing

If anyone needs me you’ll have to drag my fingers out of my ears first

Oh good Kanye West is being rehabilitated

Oh good nuking Iran is on my timeline

Morning everyone.

i ask again WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE IN TECH

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Duh

WOW. Sky News presenter deepfaked. The goal to stir up bad relations between the US and the rest of the world.

Sorry coming back around to this, but I wish people would look beyond the senile old man in the Oval Office and ask: where’s the idea coming from? Who cares about Trump? What about making people the subject of public debate who prefer to stay out of sight?

Similarly the focus is on Hegseth because he’s also a clown but is he making the strategy?

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I don’t think Donald Trump is making policy but it sure is useful that everyone focuses on him and broadly ignores both Rubio and Miller.

Wheels up all friendlies out. C130 got a wheel stuck in the sand at the FARP and a Delta element had to come in and blow it in place. Whole op sounds dicey as hell but they pulled it off.

This screen grab is from a video posted today by an Iranian bystander. It shows two helicopters refueling incredibly close to the ground in enemy territory. If everybody was flying like that, I'm not surprised so many got hit. x.com/RKhanizadeh/...

Anduril is not a serious company

WHAT WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS YOU BUNCH OF CLOWNS

What if the whole point of *all this* is oil prices and market disruption which fucks everyone else including the main competitors to the US?

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Brexiters: we should escape Europe and embrace the world and the wonderful USA USA: ur stupid ur navy is puny we hate free trade u don't have anything we want we prefer Putin actually, European civilization is doomed ha ha u have no energy Brexiters: um anyone got any turnip seeds

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

Supply chain shocks are destroying the arguments for defence to support Global Britain. The UK has kicked the can down the road for 2 decades, trying to maintain balanced forces. Now the UK must focus: sea, air or land; Europe or Indo-Pac. It can’t afford to do it all.

In the face of the failure of their political project and the emptiness of their lives I guess the right is turning to religion. I bet this won’t involve a pivot to tolerance.

Hey let’s not ask why so many people are incentivised and desperate enough to try and steal things from supermarkets 🤷‍♂️

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Full YouTube feature drops later today.

I've read the speech. There are no concrete proposals for closer economic or security cooperation.

THATS NOT WHAT HAPPENED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Is it reasonable to say that this Administration is completely mad? I mean I don’t want to be rude but the whole thing defies history, geography, logic, the laws of physics… everything. It’s not just politics we’re talking. We’re in the game of defying the laws of nature!

Wow so impressive, surely the strait must be open and the regime is now very pro-America, right? Right??

The bombing will continue until morale improves

You know Trump is secretly raging at his national security aides, yelling “You told me this would be easy!”

🚨🚨special episode: I spoke to the UK’s former head of international energy strategy about what the war means for global energy supplies. It’s bad news, I’m afraid. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Fantastic afternoon at the Oxford Literary Festival today. I am very grateful to everyone for coming out on a rainy Sunday to hear me talk about my book. A good turnout. A lot of seriously smart questions and I even managed to convince a few people to buy my book.

Me in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social “America’s war with Iran is the 1st time we’ve witnessed a superpower at war in hyperconnected contexts. Now military systems & civilian data infrastructures overlap, driving the AIs that both reveal & distort the battlefield.” spectator.com/article/how-...

I guess if the Russians rethink fighting against a superpower it’s hybrid but if the Iranians do it it’s insurgency (racist)

*taps the book*

In case anyone is interested I have an unexpectedly timely report on sustainable Defence AI coming out at the end of April. It wasn’t supposed to be timely but then… *all this* happened. Keep your eye out.

I'm a bad person. I believe I could have done anything.

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

850+ TLAMs in 4 weeks is insane. If true, this would mean about 23-24% of the Navy’s 3.9k TLAMs were fired in the last 4 weeks. On top of this, about a thousand Interceptors (PAC-2/3s & THAADs) were fired.

You don’t say!

Episode Five launches on March 31st! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYUS...

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