The Man Who Made Things
Somewhere in the archive of my own memory, filed under “things I said out loud...
Freedom of speech
We’ve Become Far Too Comfortable Talking About Nuclear Weapons
I grew up in a world where the words “nuclear war” carried a rather different...
Europe Is Digging Up Its Own Graves
I spent a fair few years of my working life around ordnance. Not defusing it,...
The Money That Isn’t Yours Until Someone Says So
I spent the best part of two decades in a world built on paperwork, chains...
The Ghost in My Thesaurus
I want to get something off my chest, and I want to do it before...
The Bit Nobody’s Saying Out Loud
My cousin messaged me the other night, the way you do when something’s been rattling...
The Ocean’s Most Boring Heist
Why the “black market” for industrial brine is really just a government press release wearing...
Synthetic History and the Silent Memory-Hole
We have spent centuries worrying about people burning books, and for fairly obvious reasons. Book...
The Emptiness They’re Selling You
I live somewhere that gets called “wild” a lot. People picture me sat outside a...
The Middle Class Didn’t Declare War on the Social Contract.
They Just Stopped Returning Its Calls. Our water comes from a reservoir that fails whenever...
