In this series finale, Calum and Tom welcome Samo Burja to the King Charles III Space Station.

Samo is an analyst whose highly-regarded San Francisco-based consultancy views history as being shaped by 'live players'.

When was Britain last a live player? What kind of activity would be required to wrench us off our course towards oblivion?

Samo also discussed his plan for making Britain the wealthiest country in the world: seek energy abundance, prospect Antarctica, and become the compute capital of the world. Oh, and spend the entire NHS budget on drug discovery.

Read Bismarck Brief here:

https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/

And read Palladium, the magazine Samo runs here:

https://www.palladiummag.com/

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Rarely is it argued that there are not enough fat cats in British industry. But Rian Chad Whitton, an industrial policy specialist at Bismarck, argues that we are not doing enough to support big players. As it stands, Britain has a puny industrial base that is ill-suited for manufacturing at scale, developing 21st-century robotics, and providing the materials we need to defend our shores.

Rian has a plan, though – involving nuclear energy, captains of industry, and Welsh gold.

Read Rian's work at riancwhitton.substack.com

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You are currently directly above an energy source that is clean, available all day long, and – at least at our current Kardashev level – all but limitless. Naturally, the British government has approximately zero interest in it. But they will soon, because transformational geothermal energy is getting closer.

The main obstacle, currently, is the difficulty of harnessing the extreme heat that one finds several miles below the Earth's surface. It melts electronics and resists the creation of pipework, meaning that it's very difficult to sustainably pump fluid in and out.

Our latest guest is John Clegg, a technologist and geothermal expert who is making progress in developing high-heat electronics. John joins us in our orbital space pub to tell us about the new frontiers in geothermal, the best way of making it work for Britain, and the most mind-boggling engineering feat in the history of Dorset.

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