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Senior editor at unherd.com; author of book on averting doom; podcræftsmun at anglofuturism.co.
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Why the Left canceled air-con The culture warriors should chill out

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By Tom Ough
| UnHerd Verified
'The anti-AC lobby remains stubbornly in favor of heatwaves.' (Yui Mok/Getty) Air-conditioningculture warEuropeglobal warmingLeft-wing Prefer us on Google At their sweltering zeniths, British heatwaves exert strange and intriguing thermodynamic effects. Asphalt turns to liquid. Air becomes flame. Wheelie bins transubstantiate into single-player swimming pools. How, as temperatures rise again, can we cope? Authorities issue orders to drink water, stay in the shade, stay at home, use a fan and so on.
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Trump is snatching the deep sea's riches Britain must head for the frontier

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By Tom Ough
| UnHerd Verified
The US and China are competing for mineral resources. (JG Fox/Getty) Chagos IslandsClarion-Clipperton ZoneCritical mineralsdeep-sea miningTrade war Like the howling ice shelves of Antarctica, or the searing depths of the Earth’s crust, the deep-sea floor is both of our world and alien. The abyssal plain is a Lovecraftian land in which strange creatures, some of them eerily aglow, live and die beneath the pitch-black weight of several miles of ocean. It is no place for our fragile species.
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049. Josh Lavorini: Inside HomeDAO, Oxford's monastery for unicorn founders

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By Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, Aeron Laffere
| Substack
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -51:02 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. From the King Charles III Space Station, Tom and Calum descend into a drone-filled kitchen in West Oxford — the home of HomeDAO, a startup programme that’s part incubator, part monastery, and part answer to a question British universities have stopped asking: what do you do with the most relentlessly ambitious young people in the country?
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