Alexander Evans

Does Britain still have a coherent foreign policy? Ben Judah, former special adviser to David Lammy, reveals how Britain’s diplomatic establishment is under growing criticism, from accusations the Foreign Office has become bloated and distracted by DEI, to deeper concerns that Whitehall does not have the strategic clarity needed in an increasingly unstable world. @ShippersUnbound | @b_judah | @JAHeale

Does Britain still have a coherent foreign policy? Ben Judah, former special adviser to David Lammy, reveals how Britain’s diplomatic establishment is under growing criticism, from accusations the Foreign Office has become bloated and distracted by DEI, to deeper concerns that Whitehall does not have the strategic clarity needed in an increasingly unstable world. @ShippersUnbound | @b_judah | @JAHeale

Mockup of how would @AnthropicAI's new labor automation chart would've looked 200 years ago. For our ancestors, the outer ring would be almost unrecognizable. "Computer & math" was nonsensical. Medicine and law were tiny and barely professionalized. The first photo was just about to be taken, so it would have been unfathomable to have a single blockbuster gross more than the entire gross national product of that period. "Office & admin" barely existed as a concept; counting-houses employ a tiny literate class. Agriculture alone consumed maybe 70-80% of the labor force in the US. There was a thick band of artisanal trades that don't map onto any single modern category: coopering, blacksmithing, weaving, tanning, milling. Clergy was a major professional category and Maritime labor was its own significant sector.