I've got two visions of the future that are coming from the very highest echelons of the country below.

The first is piece together from a series of articles and posts.

It is to do with Dominic Cummings' plan to build a super defense agency to boost the economy

in the north using 800 million pounds.

We're super defense.

We're building nerve in hole, folks.

Yeah.

Yes.

Ministers, goes the article from the Times, are preparing to develop two cutting-edge

scientific research bodies in the Midlands and North of England after Boris Johnson's

promise to, quote, level up investment outside the southeast.

We're going to finally find out how many genders there are.

Yes.

We're going to settle this once and for all.

As Joe Biden said, at least three.

Find an island in Bassett law and call it Shadow Moses Island.

That's how you got to do it.

Male, female and malarkey.

Downing Street.

Downing Street is said to be determined that an 800 million pound advanced research projects agency will be based outside the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge and wants to set up a center of scientific excellence modelled on MIT in the north.

The following quote is from a briefing document obtained under a FOIA request by the new scientist.

Our proposal is that a new body offering academics longer term funding spanning at least 10

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