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  1. 5d ago

    The Fortress Principle: Chapter 3 - The Banker and the President

    The Fortress Principle: Chapter 3 - The Banker and the President "We take the world as it is." When asked about human rights in China, the Prime Minister of Canada gave a seven-word answer. No qualifiers. No "but we will continue to raise concerns through appropriate channels." No "while acknowledging the complexity of the bilateral relationship." Just - we take the world as it is. Meanwhile, in Paris, Emmanuel Macron was trying to keep his government alive for the third time in four months. Get full access to The Fortress Principle at climatefortress.substack.com/subscribe

  2. Jul 16

    The Fortress Principle: Chapter 2 - The Triage Kit

    The first part of this book is full of references to events which happened over just a few months. They were seen as a pattern, and then the pattern was identified. So… How do you get to see it? How do you get to read the news, the policy announcements, the trade deals, the military deployments, and diagnose which type of fortress construction, or theatre, you are observing? This chapter is the triage toolkit. Once absorbed, you will never scan across news headlines the same way again. Get full access to The Fortress Principle at climatefortress.substack.com/subscribe

  3. Jul 9

    The Fortress Principle: Chapter One - End of a Pleasant Fiction

    Part One: All the little things This book is in several parts. The first, the dark woods, is responding to the overwhelming feeling of everything moving so fast that no-one could keep up with understanding what was going on. It’s heavy with what happened over the first quarter of 2026. People felt, viscerally, that everything was going mad – and many people stopped trying to understand it. Chapter 1: End of a Pleasant Fiction "Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual." - Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah  Tuesday, January 20th, 2026. Davos, Switzerland. The Canadian Prime Minister walked to the podium in a conference hall full of the most powerful people on earth and told them the world they built was over. Get full access to The Fortress Principle at climatefortress.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Jul 2

    The Fortress Principle - Prologue

    The Fortress Principle - Part One Prologue - The Failure Get full access to The Fortress Principle at climatefortress.substack.com/subscribe

  5. Season 1 Trailer

    The Fortress Principle

    This is The Fortress Principle, by James Hedley. Every wall going up in the world right now — Greenland, European rearmament, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — was made inevitable by the same pressure. This book maps that pattern. New chapters release free, every week, through to Christmas — when the complete book goes to every subscriber as a gift. Find it at climatefortress.substack.com. Get full access to The Fortress Principle at climatefortress.substack.com/subscribe

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