Another chance to laugh at this absolute rib-smasher from the New Yorker.

What will remain of us is data.

In case you are looking for a pre-press conference read…

Strategic autonomy vs unreliable hegemony

The Trump Opportunity: A Grand Strategy for Europe open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Exclusive: Renewables grew to almost 50% of global electricity capacity in 2025 after solar boost reut.rs/4dmFDJJ

North Sea oil gets sold on world markets at world prices. It doesn’t create a ringfenced UK supply. Renewables actually do – and the Strait of Hormuz can’t touch them. The energy security case for renewables is stronger, but it takes 30 secs to explain…

Memories of interviewing single mums on a northern council estate open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

At last the future we were promised.

The coup de théâtre that set fire to the stage open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Why India’s not cooking on gas open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

This @theguardian.com piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social is getting a lot of flak. I have an AI project on fairness and I ran it through. Results below. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Button. Thinking about the unthinkable open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

The Trillion-Dollar War Machine: What Is American Armed Power For? Epic Fury turns America’s military welfare state, industrial policy, and global enforcement mission against itself open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

David Ignatius: “I’m not sure it’s in our interest to fight until the regime is toppled,” said the Israeli official. “Nobody wants a never-ending story.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

America Is Burning Through Its Best Weapons Faster Than It Can Build Them open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

The Machine That Watched Epstein For a Decade Did Nothing. Now That It Could Provide Answers – It’s Being Taken Apart. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

The Country That’s Winning Everything Except Its Future open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

The Strait Truth. How the Hormuz crisis exposed Europe’s energy dependency – again. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Fragmentation … as hinted at this morning

Why No One Wants Democracy in Iran open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

The AI in Citrini’s Doomsday Scenario Stands For American Institutions open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

How to avoid paying Trumpgeld open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Ted has not been won over by the Olympics.

It is not just Trump. The ugliness is a feature, not a bug… www.berlingske.dk/internationa...

Not happening. The relationship is so hard-baked into the psyche, dependencies and ecosystems…

Agenda? European strategic autonomy. Reality? Bowing to US demands for AfD representation.

One thing to remember about these dinners. Everyone attending will probably have got bios, asked who they were sitting next to or sitting opposite, etc.

The most interesting story in global markets right now isn’t “Sell America.” It’s that reallocating capital toward faster-growing, less-correlated economies could raise returns and reduce risk at the same time. My Essay for #Bloomberg on why this is good news! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Someone who rose without trace…

Who could have guessed that the answer to the question of how to deal with a sleazy, greedy regime would not be to find a sleazy, greedy representative.

college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships

The Dirty Secrets. What we actually know about the Epstein network. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Bad news from BIS. High-debt countries might find themselves unable to fight inflation or stimulate growth effectively. www.bis.org/publ/work132...

Like Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez leaving south Texas.

“Brexit, just the beginning”

Who might stop an attack on Iran? The regionally resentful. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Who goes Nazi? (Aug 1941) by Dorothy Thompson “Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity. harpers.org/archive/1941...

The End of China’s Central Military Commission open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

North American Death Squads

Having seen Mark Carney operate around the edges of WEF for 15 years I can only be grateful that decency and intelligence and realism still have a place in democratic public life. This is a speech that any Western leader could have given. You might be asking why yours didn’t…

Holed up in Davos with the last mulitlateralists – scientists! www.linkedin.com/posts/monck_...

Risks in the age of WhatsApp diplomacy. Trump attempts to humiliate Macron. Macron’s message reveals how easy it is to divide Europe – as if that needed saying – and that Russia is on the way back in.

Claire Atkinson let me share some pre-Davos thoughts open.substack.com/pub/themedia...

Bored of peace 🕊️ www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The flaw of democracy was always that failure to deliver would not produce regeneration but revenge.

Russia’s peace negotiator writes:

Journal’s only running 2.0.0