In The Sight of the Unwise

Episode Thirty-Nine: The Foreign Policy People

Harpers Magazine recently published a superb longread on gooning, the nihilistic practice of obsessive onanism, often conducted as a sort of homosocial…

Dec 2, 2025 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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July 2025

Episode Thirty-Eight: Future of When

Two years on, has the think-tank scene got any better?

Jul 22, 2025 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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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, 2025 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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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, 2025 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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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 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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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 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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April 2024

Episode Thirty-Three: Something Going Wrong with the Bomb

The Hydrogen Bomb, Dmitri.

Apr 19, 2024 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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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 • In The Sight of the Unwise

April 2023

Episode Thirty-One: Baby Bambi

Molly-Mae Hague is 23 years old and undeniably much smarter than you.

Apr 24, 2023 • In The Sight of the Unwise

December 2022

Episode Thirty: Uber, For Religion

It is a truism of finance that some businesses scale much better than others.

Dec 25, 2022 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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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 • In The Sight of the Unwise

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 • In The Sight of the Unwise