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7 THINGS delivers weekly geopolitical insights with wit and clarity. Each edition unpacks seven critical global developments spanning foreign policy, security trends, tech influence, and strategic shi...
7thin.gs
📩 7 THINGS: Your weekly dose of geopolitical intelligence that actually makes sense.
Each Thursday, I break down 7 critical global developments – foreign policy, security trends, tech disruption. All done with just enough clarity to make an unpalatable world digestible. Subscribe below 🔗👇
7thin.gs
Each Thursday, I break down 7 critical global developments – foreign policy, security trends, tech disruption. All done with just enough clarity to make an unpalatable world digestible. Subscribe below 🔗👇
7thin.gs
Maybe they should consider changing the name of the party etc. www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Maybe they should consider changing the name of the party etc. www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
The crisis of the West isn’t immigration. It’s immobility.
Politicians obsess over who’s coming in. Nobody talks about who can’t leave.
Britain is becoming a sessile nation – its people fixed in place not by choice, but by the collapse of choices. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
Politicians obsess over who’s coming in. Nobody talks about who can’t leave.
Britain is becoming a sessile nation – its people fixed in place not by choice, but by the collapse of choices. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
The Sessile Isle
Britain’s identity crisis isn’t immigration. It’s immobility.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The crisis of the West isn’t immigration. It’s immobility.
Politicians obsess over who’s coming in. Nobody talks about who can’t leave.
Britain is becoming a sessile nation – its people fixed in place not by choice, but by the collapse of choices. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
Politicians obsess over who’s coming in. Nobody talks about who can’t leave.
Britain is becoming a sessile nation – its people fixed in place not by choice, but by the collapse of choices. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
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NEWS from @crisisgroup.org.
After 7 years as UN Director, I'm moving to a new program on Global Issues and Institutions.
@fortid.crisisgroup.org becomes Head of UN Affairs, backed by @mayaungar.bsky.social.
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AND we need a Senior Analyst covering geopolitics 👇
jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/analyst-gl...
After 7 years as UN Director, I'm moving to a new program on Global Issues and Institutions.
@fortid.crisisgroup.org becomes Head of UN Affairs, backed by @mayaungar.bsky.social.
.
AND we need a Senior Analyst covering geopolitics 👇
jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/analyst-gl...
International Crisis Group - Senior Analyst, Global Order and Peacemaking (Global Issues and Institutions)
Crisis Group is launching a new program on Global Issues and Institutions. The program will include (i) a project on global order and peacemaking; (ii) Crisis Group’s eEarth project monitoring resourc
jobs.crisisgroup.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
NEWS from @crisisgroup.org.
After 7 years as UN Director, I'm moving to a new program on Global Issues and Institutions.
@fortid.crisisgroup.org becomes Head of UN Affairs, backed by @mayaungar.bsky.social.
.
AND we need a Senior Analyst covering geopolitics 👇
jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/analyst-gl...
After 7 years as UN Director, I'm moving to a new program on Global Issues and Institutions.
@fortid.crisisgroup.org becomes Head of UN Affairs, backed by @mayaungar.bsky.social.
.
AND we need a Senior Analyst covering geopolitics 👇
jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/analyst-gl...
My daughter and her pal do a great version of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Hm...
Flyte - Archie, Marry Me (Alvvays)
YouTube video by Flyte
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November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My daughter and her pal do a great version of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Hm...
The Mercantilist Maginot Line
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The Mercantilist Maginot Line
Germany sheds jobs as China’s trillion-dollar surplus and the West’s demographic crisis make factory re-shoring impossible
7thin.gs
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The Mercantilist Maginot Line
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Germany’s Industrial Collapse: Follow the Money
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Germany’s Industrial Collapse: Follow the Money
The FT documented how Germany is failing. Here’s who’s profiting from the decline – and why reversal is politically impossible.
7thin.gs
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Germany’s Industrial Collapse: Follow the Money
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When your strategic advantage depends on a frontier that stops moving, the gap closes... my latest > The End of The Age of Silicon 7thin.gs/p/the-end-of...
The End of The Age of Silicon
Why Moore's Law's Collapse Will Reshape EverythingGrüezi!
7thin.gs
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
When your strategic advantage depends on a frontier that stops moving, the gap closes... my latest > The End of The Age of Silicon 7thin.gs/p/the-end-of...
This puts the Grossman report into its proper context. Clear now that it was the shot, and Prescott was the chaser. Have to disagree with @lewisgoodall.com about the screw up on Panorama but this is important about much else. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This puts the Grossman report into its proper context. Clear now that it was the shot, and Prescott was the chaser. Have to disagree with @lewisgoodall.com about the screw up on Panorama but this is important about much else. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
“It’s the sinking of a ship of the twentieth century British state, dependent on conditions that no longer really exist.” My two cents on the BBC, as a former British TV news exec and journalism professor. 7thin.gs/p/bbc-crisis...
The BBC Crisis and the Impossible Institution
Real editorial failures, compromised oversight, and why structural dependence on government funding makes independence impossible
7thin.gs
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“It’s the sinking of a ship of the twentieth century British state, dependent on conditions that no longer really exist.” My two cents on the BBC, as a former British TV news exec and journalism professor. 7thin.gs/p/bbc-crisis...
🧵 The Lost Imperial History of Remembrance: A Thread 🪦
Honouring the war dead, a moment of universal human respect. We think we know it.
But the silence didn't start as universal.
It started in Cape Town. And it tells us something about 1919: about Britain, and its empire.
Honouring the war dead, a moment of universal human respect. We think we know it.
But the silence didn't start as universal.
It started in Cape Town. And it tells us something about 1919: about Britain, and its empire.
a field of red poppies with a lot of flowers in it
ALT: a field of red poppies with a lot of flowers in it
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🧵 The Lost Imperial History of Remembrance: A Thread 🪦
Honouring the war dead, a moment of universal human respect. We think we know it.
But the silence didn't start as universal.
It started in Cape Town. And it tells us something about 1919: about Britain, and its empire.
Honouring the war dead, a moment of universal human respect. We think we know it.
But the silence didn't start as universal.
It started in Cape Town. And it tells us something about 1919: about Britain, and its empire.
Frightened to call someone out, you say 🤔
Ted Cruz accuses GOP senators of being ‘frightened’ to call out Tucker Carlson
Ted Cruz accuses GOP senators of being ‘frightened’ to call out Tucker Carlson
In the wake of the Nick Fuentes controversy, Cruz called on fellow Republicans to “stand up and say it is wrong.”
dlvr.it
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Frightened to call someone out, you say 🤔
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"The cost of all this success was a short, transitory burst of moderate inflation...& then the burst...stopped cold. It was over after the middle of 2022."
"I characterize 2024 as...a worldwide failure to break the misinformation system..."
All. Of. This.
In re: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"I characterize 2024 as...a worldwide failure to break the misinformation system..."
All. Of. This.
In re: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"The cost of all this success was a short, transitory burst of moderate inflation...& then the burst...stopped cold. It was over after the middle of 2022."
"I characterize 2024 as...a worldwide failure to break the misinformation system..."
All. Of. This.
In re: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"I characterize 2024 as...a worldwide failure to break the misinformation system..."
All. Of. This.
In re: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🔥 A big one this week -> The Automation Trap: Robots Old People, and What Happens When Nobody's Left to Buy 🤖https://7thin.gs/p/automation-trap-china-robots-america-aging-demographics-crisis?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The Automation Trap
Robots, Old People, And What Happens When Nobody’s Left to Buy.
7thin.gs
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🔥 A big one this week -> The Automation Trap: Robots Old People, and What Happens When Nobody's Left to Buy 🤖https://7thin.gs/p/automation-trap-china-robots-america-aging-demographics-crisis?r=zw96&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I know I never post here… 🦗
🧵🍞 1/25 In the early 1960s, a small engineering firm in Burnley, Lancashire, built the machine that would transform bread-making worldwide.
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I know I never post here… 🦗
🧵🍞 1/25 In the early 1960s, a small engineering firm in Burnley, Lancashire, built the machine that would transform bread-making worldwide.
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🧵🍞 1/25 In the early 1960s, a small engineering firm in Burnley, Lancashire, built the machine that would transform bread-making worldwide.
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
Thirty years later, its operations had been shuttered, absorbed, and relocated.
This is the story of British innovation – and what happened next. 🧵
Dough and destruction. How the machine that made modern bread explains why British industry is toast 🍞 7thin.gs/p/chorleywoo...
How the Machine That Made Modern Bread Explains Why British Industry is Toast
Burnley invented the best thing since sliced bread. Then it stopped making it.
7thin.gs
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Dough and destruction. How the machine that made modern bread explains why British industry is toast 🍞 7thin.gs/p/chorleywoo...
Reposted by Adrian Monck
It’s easy to be cynical but the Dutch tradition of all the party leaders going on children’s TV together to answer questions and play daft games is so lovely. Every country should do it
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It’s easy to be cynical but the Dutch tradition of all the party leaders going on children’s TV together to answer questions and play daft games is so lovely. Every country should do it
Reposted by Adrian Monck
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
The Sanctions That Backfired: Instead of helping Ukraine with firepower, Trump’s oil embargo is handing China the keys to a new world order.
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The Sanctions That Backfired
Trump’s oil embargo was meant to isolate Russia. Instead, it’s handing China the keys to a new world order.
7thin.gs
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The Sanctions That Backfired: Instead of helping Ukraine with firepower, Trump’s oil embargo is handing China the keys to a new world order.
7thin.gs/p/sanctions-...
7thin.gs/p/sanctions-...
Reposted by Adrian Monck
Having an extra child is linked to a decrease in women’s longevity by ~5 months, according to @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social & Hamid Noghanibehambari using SSA death records linked to the 1940 US census.The effect for men is smaller & insignificant. Results reminiscent of Sweden 1766-1895 (Dribe 2006).
Examining the effects of fertility during midlife on later-life longevity using Social Security Administration death records linked with the full-count 1940 census, from Jason Fletcher and Hamid Noghanibehambari www.nber.org/papers/w34378
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Having an extra child is linked to a decrease in women’s longevity by ~5 months, according to @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social & Hamid Noghanibehambari using SSA death records linked to the 1940 US census.The effect for men is smaller & insignificant. Results reminiscent of Sweden 1766-1895 (Dribe 2006).
Ironic from an industry built on “cuttings jobs”
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson has said AI companies are making a "fundamental miscalculation" by not paying enough for content because they "need news to keep the AI engines fresh" www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Ironic from an industry built on “cuttings jobs”
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"The US strategy is cruder but devastatingly effective...If you control oil today and position yourself to control rare earths, lithium and Arctic resources tomorrow, you maintain power regardless of which way the energy transition goes. You can sell fossil fuels now and critical minerals later."
The Ground Has Shifted: Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now? 7thin.gs/p/sustainabi...
The Ground Has Shifted
Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now?
7thin.gs
October 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"The US strategy is cruder but devastatingly effective...If you control oil today and position yourself to control rare earths, lithium and Arctic resources tomorrow, you maintain power regardless of which way the energy transition goes. You can sell fossil fuels now and critical minerals later."
The Ground Has Shifted: Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now? 7thin.gs/p/sustainabi...
The Ground Has Shifted
Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now?
7thin.gs
October 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The Ground Has Shifted: Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now? 7thin.gs/p/sustainabi...