Dominic Cummings substack

People, Ideas, Machines XIV: lessons from preparing for government in 1979 & how No10 worked in the Thatcher regime

The excellent Memoir of John Hoskyns, a crucial case study for all those realising *true regime change* is the only way

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

SNIPPETS 16: what comes after Starmer & Kemi?

Planning for a new regime... Collapse of China espionage trial... SW1 NPCs ‘shocked’ jihadis called Jihadi we imported by the thousand do jihad…

Oct 13 • 

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August 2025

People, ideas machines XIII: The origins and evolution of the Cabinet Office, the heart of darkness in the permanent government

Questions for the next PM: How might a *regime complete* government control the government? 'Reform' the Cabinet Office -- or *close* it?

Aug 29

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July 2025

A talk on regime change

Going: Kemi, Reeves, McSweeney then Rayner replaces Starmer? National Security Secretariat briefs No10 about imminent ethnic violence (and, not reported…

Jul 25 • 

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May 2025

People, ideas, machines XII: Theories of regime change and civil war

Preference falsification and Britain's slide to chaos...

May 28 • 

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April 2025

People, ideas machines XI: Leo Strauss, modernity and regime change

And Snippets on: Shor on 2024, AI, rape gangs, why JSOC should bug lawyers' phones in London...

Apr 30 • 

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March 2025

People, ideas, machines X: Freedom's Forge - the story of American business and industrial production in World War II

Lessons that are in the minds of those doing the DOGE/White House regime change, lessons relevant to UK productivity & security crises

Mar 6 • 

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February 2025

TSP #5: What comes in 2025-6 as both parties & Whitehall fail? What can be done?

Mimesis failing; preference falsification/cascades and elite fragmentation

Feb 13 • 

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November 2024

Snippets 15: US election & Narrative Whiplash inside the Simulacrum

Why NPCs blew it again & don't learn... Why you should listen to Rick Rubin and not trust the 'mainstream' media

Nov 28, 2024 • 

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October 2024

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...?

Oct 31, 2024 • 

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August 2024

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, 2024 • 

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June 2024

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, 2024 • 

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