Tom Ough

1 month ago | unherd.com | Tom Ough

AnglofuturismBritaindiverseElon MuskSocietyUSAXi Jinping So vast is the Three Gorges Dam, so unfathomably huge a mass of concrete and steel, that it has, according to Nasa’s calculations, added 0.06 microseconds to the length of each day. You can’t move that much matter toward the Equator, you see, without very slightly slowing the turning of the Earth.

1 month ago | anglofuturism.substack.com | Calum Drysdale |Tom Ough |Joe Hill

Joe Hill is Director of Policy at Reform and founder of the Greater London Project, a community initiative focused on London's future. A former Treasury civil servant with experience across government departments, Joe has become a leading critic of what he calls "everythingism"—the dysfunctional tendency to make every policy about every other policy, everywhere, all at once.

1 month ago | capx.co | Tom Ough

6 May 2025 @tomough Photo: Getty Images Talented hackers spent a weekend developing ways to make government work better Startups are not the only way to improve society via innovation Working on tech beneficial to the national interest is a promising pathway for impact Think, for a moment, on Britain’s state capacity: that is, the ability of the government to get shit done. I doubt you would give it full marks. But there are two ways, really, to look at this situation. Recall the dress that...

1 month ago | anglofuturism.substack.com | Calum Drysdale |Tom Ough

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:46:12Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Marc Warner is CEO and co-founder of Faculty, a British AI company that partners with organisations to deploy artificial intelligence in the real world. After beginning his career in quantum physics research at UCL and Harvard, Marc shifted his focus to AI, believing it would be the most important science of the 21st century.

Feb 5, 2025 | capx.co | Tom Ough

5 February 2025 @tomough Photo: Getty Images Britain needs a boost – there are ten ways to make this happen Our national progress is being stymied by vested interests and unimaginative policies We can make our country a superpower of the future A third runway for Heathrow; the construction of several reservoirs; a ‘growth corridor’ between Oxford and Cambridge. These are some of the projects that, as of last week, have the public backing of the Chancellor. Is it thin gruel that Rachel Reeves...