Archive - 7 THINGS

What 2026 Already Knows

Seven structural trends the forecasts won’t touch

6 hrs ago • Adrian Monck

December 2025

Ground Zero For The Imploding World Order

In Syria, Russia mediates, Turkey builds and America shrugs.

Dec 29, 2025 • Adrian Monck

What COVID Actually Proved About Democracy

The pandemic wasn’t a stress test. It was a warning.

Dec 23, 2025 • Adrian Monck

How to Get a Job in the Chinese Communist Party

3.72 million applicants. 40,000 positions. One professor's survival guide.

Dec 22, 2025 • Adrian Monck

The Future Has a Flag

Superintelligence, undersea cities, and a 2049 vision you weren't expecting

Dec 18, 2025 • Adrian Monck

A Christmas Ghost Story

A small seasonal gift.

Dec 16, 2025 • Adrian Monck

Who Governs Truth?

Musk, Zuckerberg, and the fight for Europe's information space

Dec 11, 2025 • Adrian Monck

I Was In The Room

Oxford, Starmer, and the Mail’s Farage defence.

Dec 9, 2025 • Adrian Monck

We Are All China Now

The West mocked Beijing’s financial repression for decades. Now it’s the model.

Dec 4, 2025 • Adrian Monck

China’s Real Industrial Crisis Isn’t Overcapacity – It’s Hollowing Out

Why Beijing fears becoming Britain

Dec 2, 2025 • Adrian Monck

November 2025

The Sessile Isle

Britain’s identity crisis isn’t immigration. It’s immobility.

Nov 27, 2025 • Adrian Monck

The Mercantilist Maginot Line

Germany sheds jobs as China’s trillion-dollar surplus and the West’s demographic crisis make factory re-shoring impossible

Nov 20, 2025 • Adrian Monck

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