Saint Bevin
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basic bitch liberalism / centre leftism is the index fund of political positions. you can outperform it case by case, but in the long run it's more reliable than anything else.
I do like that cringe resist winemums have turned out to be democracy's strongest soldiers.
October 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
basic bitch liberalism / centre leftism is the index fund of political positions. you can outperform it case by case, but in the long run it's more reliable than anything else.
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They're basically big puzzles, & once you get the rhythm they quickly go from incomprehensibly complex to hopelessly easy. Then its replayability becomes a simple question of the player's ability to abstract a narrative from its workings, unless the player is simply a speeadsheet pervert (guilty)
In theory, I should love Paradox map games. I do, specifically Stellaris, but there's always something in me that is unsatisfied with them. They feel too quantitative rather than qualitative. My feelings about them are more complicated, I feel, but they're hard to put into words.
July 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
They're basically big puzzles, & once you get the rhythm they quickly go from incomprehensibly complex to hopelessly easy. Then its replayability becomes a simple question of the player's ability to abstract a narrative from its workings, unless the player is simply a speeadsheet pervert (guilty)
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Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG https://on.ft.com/40Akc0s
Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub
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July 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG https://on.ft.com/40Akc0s
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Broke: Keir Starmer is nothing like the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's bad.
Woke: Keir Starmer is very similar to the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's good.
Bespoke: Keir Starmer's government is very similar to the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's bad.
Woke: Keir Starmer is very similar to the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's good.
Bespoke: Keir Starmer's government is very similar to the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's bad.
The author says in all seriousness that the last Labour govt ended in 1979. I invite him to read what many on the left said in 1979 about Callaghan & then ask him to compare those comments with what he has written about Starmer. It’s very similar. magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/07/04/a...
Annus horribilis
Keir Starmer’s government does not represent the true Labour Party.
magazine.newstatesman.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Broke: Keir Starmer is nothing like the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's bad.
Woke: Keir Starmer is very similar to the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's good.
Bespoke: Keir Starmer's government is very similar to the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's bad.
Woke: Keir Starmer is very similar to the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's good.
Bespoke: Keir Starmer's government is very similar to the pre-1994 Labour governments and that's bad.
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My hot-take on the Strategic Defence Review. It was over 130 pages - mine is thankfully less than that.
Let me know what you think.
Let me know what you think.
Reviewing the Strategic Defence Review
I read it all so you don't have to.
crackingdefence.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My hot-take on the Strategic Defence Review. It was over 130 pages - mine is thankfully less than that.
Let me know what you think.
Let me know what you think.
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This week on the blog: The logistics of Road War in Mad Max (and similar) settings: given logistical and tactical constraints, how might we actually expect warfare to be waged in a post-apocalypse?
The answer is...a little bit technical.
acoup.blog/2025/05/23/c...
The answer is...a little bit technical.
acoup.blog/2025/05/23/c...
Collections: The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland
This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals tal…
acoup.blog
May 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This week on the blog: The logistics of Road War in Mad Max (and similar) settings: given logistical and tactical constraints, how might we actually expect warfare to be waged in a post-apocalypse?
The answer is...a little bit technical.
acoup.blog/2025/05/23/c...
The answer is...a little bit technical.
acoup.blog/2025/05/23/c...
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
To introduce our new series on historic political trials – from Socrates to Marine Le Pen – David explores what makes political confrontations in a court of law so fascinating and so revealing. Who wins and who loses in the great game of lawfare?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
To introduce our new series on historic political trials – from Socrates to Marine Le Pen – David explores what makes political confrontations in a court of law so fascinating and so revealing. Who wins and who loses in the great game of lawfare?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
To introduce our new series on historic political trials – from Socrates to Marine Le Pen – David explores what makes political confrontations in a court of law so fascinating and so revealing. Who wins and who loses in the great game of lawfare?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
To introduce our new series on historic political trials – from Socrates to Marine Le Pen – David explores what makes political confrontations in a court of law so fascinating and so revealing. Who wins and who loses in the great game of lawfare?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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As much as people like to dunk on liberal elitism, “these Nazi punks are crass idiots and I refuse to bow to my lessers” is, for me at least, necessary for morale and stiffens my backbone when I feel like giving up.
May 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As much as people like to dunk on liberal elitism, “these Nazi punks are crass idiots and I refuse to bow to my lessers” is, for me at least, necessary for morale and stiffens my backbone when I feel like giving up.
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Very acute on the problem with Gavin Newsom's podcast, this. www.ft.com/content/3533...
May 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Very acute on the problem with Gavin Newsom's podcast, this. www.ft.com/content/3533...
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most important texts of 21st century fascism:
- depression quest (2013)
- denis villeneuve's sicario
- malcolm gladwell podcast beef tallow episode
- gen z boss and a mini
- depression quest (2013)
- denis villeneuve's sicario
- malcolm gladwell podcast beef tallow episode
- gen z boss and a mini
April 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
most important texts of 21st century fascism:
- depression quest (2013)
- denis villeneuve's sicario
- malcolm gladwell podcast beef tallow episode
- gen z boss and a mini
- depression quest (2013)
- denis villeneuve's sicario
- malcolm gladwell podcast beef tallow episode
- gen z boss and a mini
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NATO leaders now speak Gaullism with an accent. Atlanticism is their first language. I do not think that will be the case 15-20 years from now.
March 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
NATO leaders now speak Gaullism with an accent. Atlanticism is their first language. I do not think that will be the case 15-20 years from now.
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What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.
March 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.
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You might be asking, what in the world does a secondary theater in a 19th century great power war have to do with our current political predicament? Let me tell you a story of a strategy (but you should do the assigned reading before proceeding, or don’t, and maybe subscribe)
Britain's Strange Campaign: The Peninsular War and "Doing Something"
Allies, Secondary Theatres, and the Strategy of Persistance
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
You might be asking, what in the world does a secondary theater in a 19th century great power war have to do with our current political predicament? Let me tell you a story of a strategy (but you should do the assigned reading before proceeding, or don’t, and maybe subscribe)
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“We are currently clean on opsec”
March 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“We are currently clean on opsec”
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I write about the Global Combat Air Programme, the UK's ambitious project to procure a 6th gen fighter alongside Italy and Japan.
Critical for our future national security or a wasteful dump of time and money?
Critical for our future national security or a wasteful dump of time and money?
What a load of GCAP
On the UK's next sixth-gen fighter jet of the future
crackingdefence.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I write about the Global Combat Air Programme, the UK's ambitious project to procure a 6th gen fighter alongside Italy and Japan.
Critical for our future national security or a wasteful dump of time and money?
Critical for our future national security or a wasteful dump of time and money?
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I’ve spent the last few months working on this article, doing deep background on Ukraine’s tactical shifts that helped them withstand Russia’s 2024 offensives. Through the eyes of one UAF battalion commander, the piece details how his unit adapted and embraced Abwehrschlacht, defensive battle
Ukrainian Abwehrschlacht: Defense in Depth in Modern Warfare
Dispatches from the Frontline and Lessons Learned
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’ve spent the last few months working on this article, doing deep background on Ukraine’s tactical shifts that helped them withstand Russia’s 2024 offensives. Through the eyes of one UAF battalion commander, the piece details how his unit adapted and embraced Abwehrschlacht, defensive battle
Superb stuff.
I’ve spent the last few months working on this article, doing deep background on Ukraine’s tactical shifts that helped them withstand Russia’s 2024 offensives. Through the eyes of one UAF battalion commander, the piece details how his unit adapted and embraced Abwehrschlacht, defensive battle
Ukrainian Abwehrschlacht: Defense in Depth in Modern Warfare
Dispatches from the Frontline and Lessons Learned
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Superb stuff.
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I should also say I don’t think K-12 private schools should exist nor homeschooling be allowed.
Everyone should go to public schools and be required to have the same education regardless of class.
You shouldn’t be able to opt out of a common shared education for the sake of civic life. Send tweet.
Everyone should go to public schools and be required to have the same education regardless of class.
You shouldn’t be able to opt out of a common shared education for the sake of civic life. Send tweet.
March 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I should also say I don’t think K-12 private schools should exist nor homeschooling be allowed.
Everyone should go to public schools and be required to have the same education regardless of class.
You shouldn’t be able to opt out of a common shared education for the sake of civic life. Send tweet.
Everyone should go to public schools and be required to have the same education regardless of class.
You shouldn’t be able to opt out of a common shared education for the sake of civic life. Send tweet.
Books I’ve read this year:
March 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Books I’ve read this year:
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I have a solution to the problem of young men
November 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM
I have a solution to the problem of young men
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At what point does the US regret making Europe take major war seriously again
February 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
At what point does the US regret making Europe take major war seriously again
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I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.
This is incredible. Knock yourself out, Russian intel services. “A person familiar with the matter …said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.” Cc @ciaranm.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.