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My favourite highlights from the past two weeks… Ailice - This model does not exist. You can see the project here: https://www.thismodeldoesnotexist.co…
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In mid-October, shortly after it happened, I posed the question: does something look suspect about Russia blowing up its own pipelines? This might have…
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January 2023

Does the Prime Minister know more about the state of the world than a hedge fund manager? Clip for ~4 minutes. How to get infrastructure done in a…
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I begin this week’s digest with two paragraphs from Bobby Kennedy in 1966… ‘Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work…
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For the past year I’ve kept in the back of my mind a question: what are all the ways an ambitious person could approach their life? I’ve brought it up…
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December 2022

The way history is taught in schools today, almost all of us – myself included – have glaring deficits. I recently came across this clip with Niall…
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I happened across this video with Dr Bradley Garrett (first 5 mins)... I’m past the age of being daring enough to break into things, so settled for a…
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Two weeks ago, my old boss in government, Dominic Cummings, put out some very interesting analysis on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – 33-year-old…
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November 2022

A few weeks ago I supported Elon’s attempt to propose/broker peace plans in Ukraine. Here is an interesting historical counterpoint, and an example of a…
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Here’s a taster of a fortnightly digest, with eight of my favourite, timeless pieces to date… 1) Cinéma vérité – Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close…
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Why are 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors produced in Taiwan? Are we risking a re-run of Pearl Harbor? If China were to invade Taiwan, could…
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October 2022

Edwin Reischauer - Here’a a very interesting clip on how JFK’s ambassador to Japan thought about escalation/de-escalation in Vietnam in the 60s. For six…
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