I'm sorry, Lyra. I'll never forget how angry you were in my car, talking about how many people's families and loved ones were denied justice because of the culture of intimidated silence that surrounded paramilitary murders in Northern Ireland. It's dark that you have now joined that long list.

4th of July

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

UK/EU position seems to be to accept modest extortion and then immodest… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“It is a thing we made up in British politics etc…”

A man from the people but not of the people. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Keir was the last person I saw before I ended my last job. Known him on and off (very tangentially) since university politics. He made a bad ambassadorial appointment and a mistake on winter fuels. He didn’t manage the PLP. But he repaired UK relationships. Regicides rarely succeed.

Tl;DR Labour MPs are idiots

The accelerated development of expensive weapons to combat cheap ones will continue until morale improves.

Labour market redux 20C - job for up and coming young journalist 21C - retirement gig

In 1991 Washington set a limited aim, gathered a broad coalition, massed overwhelming force, pushed Iraq out of Kuwait and stopped on the line it had drawn. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

You don’t get to decide. The violent get to decide. This is the salt for their drear, angry lives. That’s how it always was.

Based on the philosophy that if we don't know about ocean heating, El Nino, hurricanes and AMOC shutdown, they aren't happening www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The new infrastructure model … Hyperscaler demands sitting on private-credit balance sheets with public consequences for grids and resources.” open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Former ’60 Minutes’ Boss Bill Owens Defends Scott Pelley & Slams CBS News www.tvinsider.com/1267555/60-m...

Finally a business model for AI.

It says risks, but surely it means effects 🤔

60 Minutes was over when Bill Owens quit.

The deep state splitter

Separatism for Alberta turns out to be a Russo-American joint influence operation. bbc.com/news/article...

Talking IPOs and AI on @aljazeera.com youtu.be/IXzV1KLqfrc?...

An expensive retelling of Dante and the Lobster

Time for a government of national self loathing www.bbc.com/news/article...

Their only interest is division.

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In fairness, they might have been concerned that he wasn’t putting in a shift.

Anyone who’s ever tried to get a plumber would know they’d be pathetically grateful he showed up whilst zipping it as he shared his toxic cocktail of opinions

“The road leads back to Meta's ad revenue sharing program”

I keep saying - team offsites and open plan offices would transform British politics!

The Western alliance.

1/ Edward Watts’ The Final Pagan Generation tells the story of Rome’s liberal patrician elite as their world collapsed. They faced a movement of intolerant, populist upstarts disrupting their traditional polytheism and its rites.

It’s my strong opinion that team offsites, better internal comms, and open plan office space would transform British politics.

Broken incentives. Nonexistent regulation.

If Britain has learned one thing, it’s that frequently changing Prime Ministers is a wonderful distraction from the country’s actual problems.

The Burnham Bounce!

For Brutalism fans.

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

Nothing to see here!

“Dollar primacy, once sold as globally useful financial plumbing, is now a lead pipe in the hands of a revisionist superpower.” open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

First cigarette of the day.

The old American empire hid inside globalisation. The new one sits in plain sight. It looks like chips, cloud infrastructure, Gulf capital and data centres. That’s the shift from goods-for-debt to compute-for-capital. 7thing.substack.com/p/compute-fo...

1/ The Asian miracle was not just grit, ingenuity and Cold War luck. It was also an American bargain. After 1949, the United States tolerated, financed and protected economic systems in East Asia that it could not have built at home.

New flex

Hormuz As America’s Suez – With One Crucial Difference open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Setting aside the 'I'm SHOCKED to find nefarious stuff in dodgy vape shops' thing I bet a lot of this could be fixed with a functioning Companies House. (Also adds to what I find with London gift shops that there is a lot of economic activity going on, rather than empty shops for money laundering.)

Dewsbury Hall or Northanger Abbey?

This is why school exchange trips are so dangerous. They’re the gateway drug to wanting to join the Euro.

Sword of Honour remains the greatest fictionalised account of British wartime prowess, a drain cleaner for nostalgic sludge.

It just involves jumping into a volcano and retrieving a ring.

Leave Gen X out of it.