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Episode Thirty-Eight: Future of When
Two years on, has the think-tank scene got any better?
Jul 22
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June 2025
Episode Thirty-Seven: Constitutional Reform
Midway through 2025, everyone agrees the British state needs reform (or, if your name is Nigel Farage, you think it needs Reform as well).
Jun 26
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Episode Thirty-Seven: Constitutional Reform
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Episode Thirty-Six: GroundMOD Day Part Two!
Even by the low and falling standards of British governance, one might expect a Strategic Defence Review to contain a great many concrete…
Jun 4
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Episode Thirty-Six: GroundMOD Day Part Two!
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December 2024
Episode Thirty-Five: It's a Party
A throwaway line in a recent Bloomberg piece caught our eye:
Dec 12, 2024
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Episode Thirty-Five: It's a Party
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Episode Thirty-Four: GroundMOD Day
Once again Britain is conducting a large-scale Strategic Defence Review, just four years after the last one.
Dec 10, 2024
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April 2024
Episode Thirty-Three: Something Going Wrong with the Bomb
The Hydrogen Bomb, Dmitri.
Apr 19, 2024
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Episode Thirty-Three: Something Going Wrong with the Bomb
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October 2023
Episode Thirty-Two: Bonfire of the Think Tanks
Barring a fairly major miracle, Labour are going to win the next election.
Oct 2, 2023
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Episode Thirty-Two: Bonfire of the Think Tanks
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April 2023
Episode Thirty-One: Baby Bambi
Molly-Mae Hague is 23 years old and undeniably much smarter than you.
Apr 24, 2023
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Episode Thirty-One: Baby Bambi
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December 2022
Episode Thirty: Uber, For Religion
It is a truism of finance that some businesses scale much better than others.
Dec 25, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Nine: The Methods of Rationality
The high-profile collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has brought the Effective Altruist (EA) community into the public spotlight for the first time.
Dec 7, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Nine: The Methods of Rationality
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October 2022
Episode Twenty-Eight: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Bomb
Over at LessWrong, physicist Max Tegmark argues there is a one in 6 chance of imminent nuclear war.
Oct 28, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Eight: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Bomb
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Episode Twenty-Seven: The Route to Power
Endless column inches and quite a few books will no doubt be written about Britain’s shortest prime ministerial tenure of all time, but there might just…
Oct 22, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Seven: The Route to Power
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