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#1 Bismarck: the ultimate practical education in the 'unrecognised simplicities' of high performance politics/government
What sort of character changes history? What and how do we learn from history? Why is it so hard to learn the 'unrecognised simplicities' of high…
Dec 14, 2023
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Snippets 14: US polls; the Westminster Wasteland; the Cabinet Office sabotaging the PM's office; PRC v USA...
What would Wang Huning think about a ‘country of geniuses in a [US] datacenter’ as soon as 2026...?
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Snippets 14: US polls; the Westminster Wasteland; the Cabinet Office sabotaging the PM's office; PRC v USA...
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People, ideas, machines IX: A) Britain's 'Organization of Victory' 1793-1815 and B) Metternich & European Community
How the British deep state organised to defeat Napoleon... Intelligence. Procurement. Manufacturing capacity. Technology. Civil service reform. Balance…
Aug 19
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People, ideas, machines IX: A) Britain's 'Organization of Victory' 1793-1815 and B) Metternich & European Community
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People, ideas, machines VIII: CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton, 'a wilderness of mirrors', covert operations, assassinations…
Lessons from/for the deep state for those thinking about AI, power, geopolitics and security
Jun 11
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People, ideas, machines VIII: CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton, 'a wilderness of mirrors', covert operations, assassinations, moles & double agents, disinformation
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Dostoyevsky, the modern intelligentsia, the spiritual crisis of the West
Cicero will have his tongue cut out, Copernicus will have his eyes put out, Shakespeare will be stoned...
May 3
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Dostoyevsky, the modern intelligentsia, the spiritual crisis of the West
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Breaking Kayfabe: the 'news' is faker than WWE, time for experiments!
EPISODE 1: How to summarise as much as possible about how politics really works in a 60 second video?
Apr 30
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Breaking Kayfabe: the 'news' is faker than WWE, time for experiments!
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SNIPPETS 13: Trump v Biden, Tory collapse, Ukraine/NATO/China, TikTok
The war didn't start in February last year. It started in 2014… President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that…
Mar 29
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SNIPPETS 13: Trump v Biden, Tory collapse, Ukraine/NATO/China, TikTok
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People, ideas, machines VII: 'The Wizard War' - lessons on technology, intelligence & organisation from World War II
RV Jones's classic Memoir... Science is cumulative, the lessons of politics are cyclical, endlessly forgotten and re-learned... Whitehall is in 'forgot…
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