When your strategic advantage depends on a frontier that stops moving, the gap closes... my latest > The End of The Age of Silicon 7thin.gs/p/the-end-of...

This puts the Grossman report into its proper context. Clear now that it was the shot, and Prescott was the chaser. Have to disagree with @lewisgoodall.com about the screw up on Panorama but this is important about much else. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

“It’s the sinking of a ship of the twentieth century British state, dependent on conditions that no longer really exist.” My two cents on the BBC, as a former British TV news exec and journalism professor. 7thin.gs/p/bbc-crisis...

🧵 The Lost Imperial History of Remembrance: A Thread 🪦 Honouring the war dead, a moment of universal human respect. We think we know it. But the silence didn't start as universal. It started in Cape Town. And it tells us something about 1919: about Britain, and its empire.

Frightened to call someone out, you say 🤔

"The cost of all this success was a short, transitory burst of moderate inflation...& then the burst...stopped cold. It was over after the middle of 2022." "I characterize 2024 as...a worldwide failure to break the misinformation system..." All. Of. This. In re: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🔥 A big one this week -> The Automation Trap: Robots Old People, and What Happens When Nobody's Left to Buy 🤖https://7thin.gs/p/automation-trap-china-robots-america-aging-demographics-crisis?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

I know I never post here… 🦗

🧵🍞 1/25 In the early 1960s, a small engineering firm in Burnley, Lancashire, built the machine that would transform bread-making worldwide. Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated. This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵

Dough and destruction. How the machine that made modern bread explains why British industry is toast 🍞 7thin.gs/p/chorleywoo...

It’s easy to be cynical but the Dutch tradition of all the party leaders going on children’s TV together to answer questions and play daft games is so lovely. Every country should do it

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

The Sanctions That Backfired: Instead of helping Ukraine with firepower, Trump’s oil embargo is handing China the keys to a new world order. 7thin.gs/p/sanctions-...

Having an extra child is linked to a decrease in women’s longevity by ~5 months, according to @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social & Hamid Noghanibehambari using SSA death records linked to the 1940 US census.The effect for men is smaller & insignificant. Results reminiscent of Sweden 1766-1895 (Dribe 2006).

Ironic from an industry built on “cuttings jobs”

"The US strategy is cruder but devastatingly effective...If you control oil today and position yourself to control rare earths, lithium and Arctic resources tomorrow, you maintain power regardless of which way the energy transition goes. You can sell fossil fuels now and critical minerals later."

The Ground Has Shifted: Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now? 7thin.gs/p/sustainabi...

A long read on why things are tough >>> Europe’s Bill of Independence 7thin.gs/p/how-americ...

Forgive the terrible pun.... >> 📰 Are You Nexperia-enced? Europe’s Technology Sovereignty Illusion 7thin.gs/p/i-set-the-...

“Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant” – never gets old.

Going For Gold: The Deliberate Dollar Collapse 7thin.gs/p/trump-doll...

We are all going to die no matter what we do. But that is no way to live. You have to admire flippant media commentary masquerading as wisdom.

New newsletter is out ($) 👇 – don’t be put off by the nerdy title.

“Narcissistic individuals’ reduced ability to feel compassion for others and their desire for intense experiences made them more interested in stories about harm and conflict, and less interested in stories about cooperation and kindness.” www.psypost.org/these-facts-...

NATO by a thread. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

RIP to this crazy diamond. Incredibly demanding, quite bonkers, but also very kind.

Absolute Leseempfehlung um zu verstehen, was in den USA und in Teilen auch hierzulande passiert

The redoubtable @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social with a useful reminder that you can't have your cake and eat it too. (Source: mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/misu...)

So Britain’s political Ragnarrok will also be a battle between serious and disappointing democrats vs comedic aspirant authoritarians. And match commentary will be of the good-natured, tongue-in-cheek variety. Until that light too goes out.

Stephen Miller’s Parallel Pentagon >> new newsletter open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Remember the catastrophic rock-ice avalanche of Blatten 🇨🇭 this May? This incredible image comparison shows like nothing else the darkening of mountain peaks. And along with the disappearance of snow, ice and permafrost, new hazards come along @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

🧵THREAD: The Quantico Address – How Stephen Miller Is Remaking Military Command

The Black-Veined Jugular: Russia’s War Hits The Wall ($) 👇https://7thin.gs/p/russia-fiscal-collapse-india-oil-putin-war-economy?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Went to the bike shop to get winter tyres put on today. Mechanic showed me a hairline fracture on my carbon frame… very, expensive trip. 🚲 >> moral of story? Be careful with bike racks.

Porter House Booze? Peaty Blinders? Wuthering Pints? Downton Shandy? Stoutcession? I admit defeat.

It’s their cygnet-ure

Netanyahu admits Israel faces “isolation” and must become “Super-Sparta.” Days later, Trump spends an hour trashing the UN. The connection? America’s protection of Israel now hurts both countries. My latest analysis 👇 7thin.gs/p/super-spar...

“A group of three French men, all living in SF and working in tech, gave the talk a 7 out of 10 because of its repetitiveness.” sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/p...

Great Lib Dem campaign coordination

Amid the AI investments… A reminder. Where are the British Apple factories?https://www.theguardian.com/business/1999/feb/03/1

Sterling subservient … new newsletter >> open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

One Big Thing -> Newsletter out Tuesday ($)

“Appeared to support white supremacist views online and showed an interest in mass shootings in the days before the attack.” www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/c...

DEI but for arrests.

My latest from a holiday trip 7thin.gs/p/vienna-lue...

I went to the Secession building in Vienna this week. You can buy themed tea towels with the art, but this is about the politics…

“The old, trusted U.S. promises are being questioned.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

🧵 Secession: How Vienna’s 1873 crash birthed Jewish industrial dominance, modernism and Europe’s first electorally successful antisemitic “revolution from below.”

James is half right. Real responsibility lies with the UK govt, which has enabled a toxic, socially divisive, hate culture by refusing to regulate social media platforms effectively. For US tech companies it means saving money on moderation. For Britain, it means a poisoned democracy.

In a bathroom at a restaurant in Passau. Check the flags bottom left.