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Harpers Magazine recently published a superb longread on gooning, the nihilistic practice of obsessive onanism, often conducted as a sort of homosocial bonding ritual by heterosexual young men with little purpose in life or reason to live.
Two years on, has the think-tank scene got any better?
Midway through 2025, everyone agrees the British state needs reform (or, if your name is Nigel Farage, you think it needs Reform as well).
Even by the low and falling standards of British governance, one might expect a Strategic Defence Review to contain a great many concrete recommendations for Defence.
A throwaway line in a recent Bloomberg piece caught our eye:
Once again Britain is conducting a large-scale Strategic Defence Review, just four years after the last one.
The Hydrogen Bomb, Dmitri.
Barring a fairly major miracle, Labour are going to win the next election.
Molly-Mae Hague is 23 years old and undeniably much smarter than you.
It is a truism of finance that some businesses scale much better than others.
