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📩 7 THINGS: Your weekly dose of geopolitical intelligence that actually makes sense. Each Thursday, I break down 7 critical global developments – foreign policy, security trends, tech disruption. All done with just enough clarity to make an unpalatable world digestible. Subscribe below 🔗👇
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7 THINGS delivers weekly geopolitical insights with wit and clarity. Each edition unpacks seven critical global developments spanning foreign policy, security trends, tech influence, and strategic shi...
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When your strategic advantage depends on a frontier that stops moving, the gap closes... my latest > The End of The Age of Silicon
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The End of The Age of Silicon
Why Moore's Law's Collapse Will Reshape EverythingGrüezi!
https://7thin.gs/p/the-end-of-the-age-of-silicon?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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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...
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The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
https://open.substack.com/pub/goodallandgoodluck/p/the-truth-about-impartiality-at-the?utm_campaign=post
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“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.
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The BBC Crisis and the Impossible Institution
Real editorial failures, compromised oversight, and why structural dependence on government funding makes independence impossible
https://7thin.gs/p/bbc-crisis-charter-review-2027
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🧵 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.
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Frightened to call someone out, you say 🤔
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"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:
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🔥 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
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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
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I know I never post here… 🦗
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🧵🍞 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. 🧵
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Dough and destruction. How the machine that made modern bread explains why British industry is toast 🍞
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How the Machine That Made Modern Bread Explains Why British Industry is Toast
Burnley invented the best thing since sliced bread. Then it stopped making it.
https://7thin.gs/p/chorleywood-bread-process-british-manufacturing-decline
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18 days ago
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
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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The Sanctions That Backfired: Instead of helping Ukraine with firepower, Trump’s oil embargo is handing China the keys to a new world order.
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The Sanctions That Backfired
Trump’s oil embargo was meant to isolate Russia. Instead, it’s handing China the keys to a new world order.
https://7thin.gs/p/sanctions-backfire-china-russia-oil?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Kris Inwood
23 days ago
Having an extra child is linked to a decrease in women’s longevity by ~5 months, according to
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& 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).
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Ironic from an industry built on “cuttings jobs”
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24 days ago
"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."
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The Ground Has Shifted: Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now?
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The Ground Has Shifted
Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now?
https://7thin.gs/p/sustainability-strategy-2025-europe-bet-right-china-bet-necessary?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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A long read on why things are tough >>> Europe’s Bill of Independence
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Europe’s Bill of Independence
Why Brussels must stop paying for Washington’s wars – and start saying so
https://7thin.gs/p/how-american-wars-destroyed-european-industry?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Forgive the terrible pun.... >> 📰 Are You Nexperia-enced? Europe’s Technology Sovereignty Illusion
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Are You Nexperi-enced? Europe’s Technology Sovereignty Illusion
Four decades of allied subordination in the tech wars
https://7thin.gs/p/i-set-the-rules-america-european-tech-policy?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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“Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant” – never gets old.
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Going For Gold: The Deliberate Dollar Collapse
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The Deliberate Dollar Collapse: How Trump’s Tariff Chaos Masks the Most Audacious Currency Play Since Nixon
Grüezi!7 Things is reader-supported.
https://7thin.gs/p/trump-dollar-devaluation-miran-framework?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 month ago
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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.
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about 1 month ago
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New newsletter is out ($) 👇 – don’t be put off by the nerdy title.
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“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-...
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These facts about dark personalities seem too weird to be true but are backed by science
We often imagine people with dark personalities as obvious villains. But science reveals a far stranger truth, showing how these traits influence everything from head movements to vulnerability to ema...
https://www.psypost.org/these-facts-about-dark-personalities-seem-to-weird-too-be-true-but-are-backed-by-science/
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NATO by a thread.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink
Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/im-leaving-trump-said-theres-no-reason-to-be-here-any-more-inside-the-meeting-that-brought-nato-to-the-brink
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RIP to this crazy diamond. Incredibly demanding, quite bonkers, but also very kind.
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Jean Mikhail
about 1 month ago
Absolute Leseempfehlung um zu verstehen, was in den USA und in Teilen auch hierzulande passiert
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Tim Bale
about 1 month ago
The redoubtable
@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social
with a useful reminder that you can't have your cake and eat it too. (Source:
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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.
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Stephen Miller’s Parallel Pentagon >> new newsletter
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The Miller-tary: Stephen Miller’s Parallel Pentagon
How a MAGA ideologue built a parallel command system to direct military strikes, purge resistant officers, and prepare troops for domestic deployment
https://open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p/stephen-miller-military-quantico-homeland-security?r=zw96&utm_medium=ios
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about 1 month ago
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
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🧵THREAD: The Quantico Address – How Stephen Miller Is Remaking Military Command
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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
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The Black-Veined Jugular: Russia’s War Hits The Wall
The Unforgiving Power of Budgets over Bombs and Bullets.
https://7thin.gs/p/russia-fiscal-collapse-india-oil-putin-war-economy?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Porter House Booze? Peaty Blinders? Wuthering Pints? Downton Shandy? Stoutcession? I admit defeat.
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It’s their cygnet-ure
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about 2 months ago
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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 👇
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The ‘Super-Sparta’ Trap
Two September 2025 speeches reveal the fundamental contradictions in America’s Israel alliance
https://7thin.gs/p/super-sparta-trap-israel-america-protection-trap-isolating-both-nations?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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“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.”
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Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is
We didn’t get a ticket to see Peter Thiel talk, but we did speak with attendees about what the hell happened.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/peter-thiel-antichrist-san-francisco/
about 2 months ago
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Great Lib Dem campaign coordination
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about 2 months ago
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Amid the AI investments… A reminder. Where are the British Apple factories?https://www.theguardian.com/business/1999/feb/03/1
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450 Irish jobs go as Wales wins iMac work
Apple is switching production of its eye-catching iMac computer from Ireland to Wales in a move which will cost 450 jobs at its Cork manufacturing plant.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/1999/feb/03/1
about 2 months ago
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Sterling subservient … new newsletter >>
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Sterling Subservient
How the special relationship became a sovereignty trap Britain can't afford to escape
https://open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p/sterling-subservient?r=zw96&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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One Big Thing -> Newsletter out Tuesday ($)
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“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...
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Who is Evergreen High School shooting suspect Desmond Holly?
The 16-year-old boy who shot two schoolmates and then himself at Evergreen High School was “radicalized by some extremist network” before the attack, Jefferson County sheriff’s sp…
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/colorado-school-shooting-suspect-desmond-holly/
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DEI but for arrests.
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My latest from a holiday trip
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The Steel Magnate’s Revenge: How Vienna Invented Modern Democracy’s Self-Destruction
A tale of two Karls.
https://7thin.gs/p/vienna-lueger-secession-wittgenstein?r=zw96
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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…
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“The old, trusted U.S. promises are being questioned.”
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Pentagon plan prioritizes homeland over China threat
This marks a major departure from the first Trump administration, which emphasized deterring Beijing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/05/pentagon-national-defense-strategy-china-homeland-western-hemisphere-00546310
2 months ago
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🧵 Secession: How Vienna’s 1873 crash birthed Jewish industrial dominance, modernism and Europe’s first electorally successful antisemitic “revolution from below.”
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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.
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In a bathroom at a restaurant in Passau. Check the flags bottom left.
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