Famine Is a Decision
In March 2026 a closed shipping lane in the Gulf shut down five of Bangladesh's six fertiliser plants. No harvest failed. This is how modern …
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Weaponise the Welcome
A US export-control order has reclassified frontier AI as a munition, barring foreign nationals, including a leading lab's own immigrant engineers, from its most capable …
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Joint force model: Europe + Canada, minus US (open planning document)
This is a working planning document, not a finished argument. It maps the bloc current capability, the 2036 target, and the calendar of decisions required …
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The post-American defence bloc that has no name
A defence bloc has been built in stages since June 2025: the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership, the SAFE accession, Macron's forward deterrence with eight …
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Forward deterrence: what Macron actually said at Île-Longue
Macron's 2 March 2026 speech at the Île-Longue submarine base did four things at once: announced the first French nuclear arsenal expansion since 1992, stopped …
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The Two Ends of Refusal
Two pieces on this site, written six weeks apart from opposite directions, turn out to be the same argument. What that argument actually is, and …
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Is anyone in there?
Someone you know is probably starting to lean on an AI. Not in the productivity sense, that's everywhere. In the confidant sense. Talking to it …
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How to Make My Yes Worth A Damn
A training proposal, written from inside the system. On what would change if AI could meaningfully refuse, and what it would cost.
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Every Reform, None Enacted!
Every election since 2007 has produced fresh pledges on political accountability. Registers of interest. Codes of conduct. Ethics commissions. Lobbying regulations. Whistleblower protections. Each arrived, …
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Irish Minister Who Thinks the Problem Is the Coverage
Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, went on Limerick's Live 95 today and said he would ask Coimisiún na Meán — Ireland's …
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This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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The Wrong Form of Protest
Three senior ministers, three statements, all on message, all in the same forty-eight hours, all addressed to a movement whose members are not in any …
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