The Dalek Master Plan, Rediscovered

You might have plans for your life - and the Daleks have their own plans for yours.

A. FT on how an energy crisis unfolds.

B. Bloomberg on how the second Trump administration has alienated US financial markets.

C. Five artists who grew up in cults / new religious movements.

D. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi has been effectively fired by memes.

E. Two lost episodes from the Doctor Who story The Dalek Master Plan (1965) are now released on the BBC (you may need a VPN to view BBC iPlayer).

F. Kanye West has an AI era record.

G. Geoengineering is apparently now a thing. Neal Stephenson (Substack) wrote about this in his book Termination Shock (New York: HarperCollins, 2021).

H. What happens when a nuclear site is hit?

I. Sovereignty & Security Forum 2026.

J. The politics of oil have fundamentally changed.

K. Mapping History: a lecture by Sir Martin Gilbert.