The Recession Nobody Wants to Name
By Dominus Owen Markham We are, as a species, remarkably gifted at financial self-deception. We’ll cheerfully tap a contactless card on a round of drinks we can’t afford, stare at…
The People They Forgot to Mention
A mainstream media kind of erasure happens all too often, and that doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t come with a boot to the face or a document stamped DENIED. It’s…
The One That Got Away
(And Why Most Businesses Are Still Making the Same Mistake) There’s a particular kind of ache that comes not from failure, but from almost. Not the clean, honest sting of…
The AI Life Concierge
Why the Most Human Business of the Next Decade Runs on Artificial Intelligence If you’ve ever nodded along confidently while understanding absolutely nothing, this one’s for you. You’re sitting across…
The Great Institutional Demolition
They keep telling you the buildings are structurally sound. You can see the cracks from the street. There’s a thought experiment doing the rounds in the kind of intellectual circles…
The Algorithm Doesn’t Care If You Die
Nobody at TikTok lost sleep when the blackout challenge killed a ten-year-old. I mean that literally, not as provocation… nobody’s sleep is structured around that kind of outcome. Not the…
The Other Side of the Fence
There’s a moment nobody warns you about. Not the paperwork. Not the resettlement briefings with their PowerPoint slides about “transferable skills” and civilian career pathways. Not even the last time…
Someone in Nairobi Has Seen Your Bits
Let’s talk about the gift horse. You know the one. Gleaming. Beautiful. Suspiciously generous. The kind of gift that arrives with a bow on it and a card that says…
They’re Not Even Hiding It Anymore
There’s a city called Narva sitting on the eastern edge of Estonia. Population fifty thousand, give or take. It sits right on the border with Russia. Around ninety percent of…
Still Talking: Why Your Voice Matters When the World Seems Deaf
A long-form essay for everyone who keeps saying something, even when it feels like no one is listening. I spent years in the Royal Air Force watching the horizon for…