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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
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Dominic Cummings
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May 2024

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...
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Dominic Cummings
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April 2024

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?
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Dominic Cummings
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March 2024

February 2024

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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Dominic Cummings
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January 2024

SNIPPETS 12: Paralysed force, gesture without motion -- our hollow regimes...
UKR / Israel / 2024 elections / The Startup Party / elite fragmentation / lab leak case practically closed...
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Dominic Cummings
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December 2023

#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…
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Dominic Cummings
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November 2023

How to help parents & teachers give their children better education?
Maths, 'maths circles', Kolmogorov, Westminster's centralisation & vandalism
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Dominic Cummings
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Covid / Inquiry snippets
I’ll post below thoughts on giving evidence and other things from the Inquiry. I’ll keep hacking this page around for a few days… UPDATED 27/11 Here is…
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Dominic Cummings
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October 2023

Snippets 11: US deep state, how Apple is managed, laughable HS2 'evidence' to No10 in 2020, why do OneWeb
Sorry for delays. I’ve been stuck going through my statement for the official covid Inquiry with the Inquiry team. It has been painful. Yesterday I…
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Dominic Cummings
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August 2023

#4 The Startup Party: Time to Build from September and replace the Tories?
Assumptions? The market opportunity? Principles for a new Party? How to grow? Stand in seats in GE24?
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Dominic Cummings
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June 2023

#3 The Startup Party: reflections on the last 20 years, what could replace the Tories, and why
What did I really spend my time on in No10, what does the VL plan imply for the old parties 2024-30; more on AI/No10
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Dominic Cummings
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