The Great Institutional Demolition
They keep telling you the buildings are structurally sound. You can see the cracks from...
Observations
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...
Someone in Nairobi Has Seen Your Bits
Let’s talk about the gift horse. You know the one. Gleaming. Beautiful. Suspiciously generous. The...
They’re Not Even Hiding It Anymore
There’s a city called Narva sitting on the eastern edge of Estonia. Population fifty thousand,...
When War Reaches the High Street
By Dominus Owen Markham Most people assume wars arrive loudly. They imagine the moment as...
The Neutral Jacket
So here’s a thing that actually happened. In February, Russian athletes competed at the Winter...
Breaking News Is Mostly Broken
By Dominus Owen Markham There’s a peculiar genre of modern media that deserves its own...
Three Hundred Billion Barrels of Foreign Policy
I want to tell you something that didn’t make the front pages. Not really. Oh,...
The Game Nobody Asked To Play
By Dominus Owen Markham Let me guess. You’ve been vaguely aware that something has been...
The Slow Fade of the Public Voice
I have noticed something curious over the past few years. Not something dramatic… nothing you...
