7 THINGS

7 THINGS

How the Machine That Made Modern Bread Explains Why British Industry is Toast

Burnley invented the best thing since sliced bread. Then it stopped making it.

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Adrian Monck
Oct 30, 2025
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A quick note: 7 Things usually focuses on geopolitics and the multipolar world we’re navigating. But sometimes the biggest strategic questions – how the West lost manufacturing capacity, why Europe became vulnerable to Chinese industrial dominance, where Western economic power actually went – are best understood through the specific story of one …

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