Odds and Ends of History

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Odds and Ends #67: Why Starmer should follow Trump's communications strategy
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Odds and Ends #67: Why Starmer should follow Trump's communications strategy

Plus why AI environmental claims are basically nonsense.

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May 09, 2025
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An American Pope.

Pod! Don’t forget to check out this week’s Abundance Agenda podcast, in which Martin and I dig into what Tony Blair actually said about Net Zero (which, er, is also the topic of the article below) – and we actually speak to the author of the controversial report. And then to celebrate VE Day, Martin blows my mind with some insane WWII logistics facts. I think this is the best episode we’ve done so far. Listen on Apple, Spotify or Substack.

Meet-Up! On June 3rd I’m hosting my second annual Summer Subscribers Meet-Up. It was super fun to meet so many of you last year, so please do come along and hang out with me and the sort of nerds who read my stuff! It’s free to attend, but you’ll need a ticket so I can manage numbers! Hope to see you all there!


Hello! It’s time for Odds and Ends, your weekly round-up of the most interesting links I’ve seen this week.

This week I’m featuring:

  • What Starmer should learn from Trump about communication.

  • Why people chase diagnosis and the value of labels.

  • A very cool AI trick to speed up the digital government transition.

  • A bizarre story about a local journalism.

  • And a fun poem about postcodes (!)


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