The Red Carpet and the Red Scare 
The Cloud That Drinks Our Rivers 
So… I’ve Written a Rather Silly Book 
The Outsourced Mind 
The Hydrogen Valley… and the Price of Sunshine 
The Red Carpet and the Red Scare
Somewhere on the south lawn of the White House, a helicopter landing pad has been...
The Cloud That Drinks Our Rivers
Where I live, water is never a background thing. I live off-grid in rural Spain,...
So… I’ve Written a Rather Silly Book
I have spent quite a lot of my life writing about reasonably serious things. Politics,...
The Outsourced Mind
Three weeks ago I stood outside a supermarket in a town I have lived near...
The Hydrogen Valley… and the Price of Sunshine
Living in Andalucía, you become accustomed to the sun in a way that people visiting...
Stop Buying AI Prompts…
Just Talk to the Bloody Thing I keep seeing people selling collections of AI prompts,...
What I’ll Actually Put In My Body Now
The cave floor is cold in October in a way that has nothing to do...
The Chip on Europe’s Shoulder
(And Why Nobody’s Doing Anything About It) I spent a fair few years in uniform...
When Nobody Trusts the Watchdog
The Quiet Assault on Journalism Something rather strange is happening to journalism across Europe, and...
The Theatre of the Grey Zone
Every morning, the machinery of the global press hands us a neatly wrapped package of...