Andrew Kramer
@andrewmkramer
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Re-industrialising the West @IsembardGroup. We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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Joined August 2009
Launching the @SovereignAlbion Podcast: How to Regulate British Nuclear, with @JohnFingleton1 & Mustafa Latif-Aramesh Since writing @sovereignalbion, I have been lucky to have some of the truest and best conversations of my life. What was intended to be a personal essay, albeit
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@niccruzpatane Not a joke. Mass is serious. I really do care that much. Mass is everything, safety, efficiency, attributes (like NVH), energy, consumption, cost, EVERYthing. If you don’t care about mass you don’t care about your customer. A colleague of mine recent quoted another colleague in a
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La France quand elle avait 35% de dépense publique.
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Enormously exciting to get delivery of a new 18 tonne CNC turn-mill machine. Doubly exciting to have @rowlsmanthorpe drop by during the installation. Thanks for the visit, Rowland. It's time to build. @IsembardGroup @AFitzgerald1992
Inside the British startup that is 'reinventing' the way that modern weapons are manufactured in the UK. Sky's Technology Correspondent @rowlsmanthorpe reports. Read more science and tech news: https://t.co/dSav7JdJTT
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One of the most ambitious and interesting startups I've seen in some time 🚀
Inside the British startup that is 'reinventing' the way that modern weapons are manufactured in the UK. Sky's Technology Correspondent @rowlsmanthorpe reports. Read more science and tech news: https://t.co/dSav7JdJTT
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In which I make the case for the @AFitzgerald1992-@RianCFFWhitton argument for machine tool financing as a basic pillar of industrial policy.
Defence has always been tied to the state. But rebuilding industrial capability requires more than strategy documents. In our most recent episode, we explore how the UK can actually strengthen its industrial base: by empowering new entrepreneurs to expand, innovate and invest in
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Delighted to tour @IsembardGroup Exeter and speak to Shaun Rowcliffe and @andrewmkramer A new wave of factory owners reinventing manufacturing & bringing it home Full episode in the replies below!
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We're thrilled today to be launching The Rickover Corpus with @charlesxjyang and @IndustrialStrat The Corpus is a free searchable archive of over 2,500 pages of never before seen speeches, memos, and testimony from Hyman Rickover digitized from the USNA https://t.co/BNuzulgkmi
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New Syn Post. British machine tool spending is 15% that of Germany, 40% of Taiwan, and 60% of Canada and France. It's time for machine tool financing. £1 billion every year for 5 years. That's 1.6% of annual industrial policy spending.
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Let us - all of us - ignite the white heat of technology, together.
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Terrific. There’s nothing partisan about imagining a Britain that’s richer, more pioneering and more spacefaring. It was Bevin who saw the most futuristic technology of the time - the atomic bomb - and said “I want it here, I want it now, and I want a bloody Union Jack on it.” 🇬🇧
I'm in the New Statesman today talking about what Anglofuturism means for progressives, the left, and those allergic to nostalgia—and why we can't afford to disagree that Britain needs a brilliant future.
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A treat to talk to my friend @harrietsgreen for this podcast. Stagnation is a choice. We can build again.
Britain was once a nation of makers. It can be again. Maybe it's you. The factory episode⚙️🔥⬇️ Owner Shaun Rowcliffe and strategy lead Andrew Kramer take us round the first @IsembardGroup UK franchise. An early Basis portfolio company, Isembard – as many already know – is
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When people think 'the future of production' they imagine a huge gigafactory, but actually the future of production is distributed https://t.co/3oQU1oL0Bh via @ft
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If the product is right, such as craft beer or clothing, the concept of automated small plants can succeed
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The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing. Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀
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“a generic bundle of timeless, rootless, Rawlslop” - a wonderful phrase in a masterful response
@twinni_two @matthewclifford I find the idea that imperialism is the monocausal explanation for the full list of inventions and discoveries he mentions, unconvincing. It is entirely possible to believe simultaneously that the many awful things happened in the Empire without making it a totalising theory of
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"The mother of greatness is permissionlessness. "You shouldn't need a licence to do all these things. "We need to built a country where you can just do stuff." @matthewclifford at LFG Make or Break 🚀🚀🚀
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“How you do the smallest things is how you do the biggest things”
great moment in the cheeky pint episode with dan sundheim where daniel presses him to walk through his average earnings morning in exhaustive detail, both w/ and w/o a crisis i wish more interviews would do this: how you do the smallest things is how you do the biggest things.
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Bicycles sit surprisingly late in the tech tree, mostly because they demand tight metallurgical tolerances. It would’ve been impractically hard for the Romans to build a cycling industry, for example.
I can answer this. It's because no one can make machined parts in a post apocalyptic world. You need machines and electricity to make bikes. That's why.
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"We must again turn to our technical men and to our scientists and rely on them to take the lead as they did when this country’s industrial wealth was first built up … In the battle before us our mechanical engineers are our armoured divisions." - Herbert Morrison, June 1947
“I would much prefer a world where Britons are producing the future.” It’s “sad” that 'Anglofuturism' has become associated with conservatism when it’s “actually aggressively forward looking”, says Anglofuturist podcast host, @CalumDrysdale. @HugoRifkind
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