British govt should go full Manhattan Project on Oxford-Cambridge arc. 10x both science parks in size, including special ARIA and DSTL zones. Militarise them for national security and for defence tech integration. Grow the cities to 1m population each by 2050 (mostly internal

The good news? British shipbuilding almost collapsed when the US outcompeted on lumber costs for wooden ships. Along came iron and steel steamships and the British had a resurgence ( @_brianpotter )

The decline of British shipbuilding capacity

https://t.co/cP160ZNU5i I wasn't joking lol

making plasma rn building smth with this soon

You need to think about supply chains more People talk about how China has most shipbuilding capacity etc. But who builds the container ships' engines? Germany, USA, Finland, Japan etc Strategically, capacity dominance matters a lot less than the degree of vertical integration

Serious respect for the Synthesia team Raise not fold

What a glorious week it's been to be an englishman The anniversaries for the battles of Agincourt and Trafalgar Who would win? Roving bands of merry peasants from across the shires vs Vast, arrogant armies of the european nobility Henry V on the eve of Agincourt: "We few, we

never let the weather keep you down

the most dangerous thing about britain's ruling class is that they only care about intentions, not consequences

your phone signal after your train gets out of london

Been working on this for a few months. 4000 word treatise on combined cycle engines, electric propulsion, automating airports, and why hydrogen is bad. Let's 10x civilian passenger numbers! https://t.co/RK3bdVlc5K

"£250bn is nothing!!" you all moan measuring it against gdp is meaningless a) could be a lot more, esp. with Falklands, Antarctic Terr. b) strategic leverage c) plenty of jobs & economic activity d) £250 bn sov. wealth fund ≈ Abu Dhabi, Singapore's Temasek. serious stuff

my weekends are binary go to london and intensely socialise lock myself on barracks and work on my own projects for 18hrs/day no in-between at all

spoke to a guy on X this afternoon with whom I have some mutual friends met up for dinner tonight. spoke about him moving to nyc to launch his company all in ~6hrs the internet is awesome and if you don't think it is you're not using it well

Britain sits on: - 3bn barrels of oil - 7tn cubic ft of gas - 50k tn of tungsten - 2m tn of lithium carbonate - 6m oz of gold This is ~£250bn, and just the reserves we know about The question is, who has the ambition to unlock this wealth and strategic leverage?

reminder that every 25 days china builds enough solar and wind to power the entire of britain

I do admit I like to mog Britain's obsession with fintechs. Low strategic value, often just shuffling ££ for small % fees etc But the first fintech startup I've invested in just turned a profitable quarter <1yr after being founded It's hard to not like capital light businesses

https://t.co/STt2Fc4vqu

this is not good for my mental health

whatever your views are on tony blair the guy is a tier 1 political operator left no. 10 two decades ago and is still making serious moves at the heart of all US administrations, dem and rep close to ellison, the murdochs now trying to run Gaza runs circles around other