“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.

Go into politics kids!

Opus 4.7 plays Opus 4.6.

The Apprentice Is Now The Master open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

This kind of thing in public service journalism is inexcusable.

The future of non-human news curation or a ghastly experiment - you decide - anyway this is today’s version fresh off the model substack.com/@adrianmonck...

True that parts of the Vatican City are “no go” areas with warring gangs of Benedictines and Jesuits

Slow And Steady Wins The Race? open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

Orban has lost before and come back nastier…

A lot of democracy comes down to the sheer joy of getting rid of people.

And people think A.I. writing is bad.

I think a lot of people here are way underestimating how difficult it is to break a sexual abuse story *even when everybody kind of knows it* unless you can get victims on record. it is very, very hard.

The Middle Ages are back…

Bitcoin Banksy

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The Dimon Doctrine open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

A little late.

Just another day in the White House.

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.