Same Circus, Different Clowns 
We’ve Become Far Too Comfortable Talking About Nuclear Weapons 
Nodules of Contention: 
The Grave They Dug Themselves 
Freedom of Speech… Until Somebody Says Something We Don’t Like
Freedom of speech is perhaps the only subject where almost everyone claims to support it…...
The Illusion of the Local Council:
How Outsourced Policy Quietly Erased Local Democracy There was a time when local governance, for...
The Atomization Economy
I live in a cave. Actual rock, actual dust, actual silence you could cut into...
The Last Human Variable
Right, let’s talk about the ghost town nobody built and everybody’s already living in. I’ve...
The Last Place Without Signal
I used to judge a journey by how quickly the mobile signal disappeared. Not out...
The Maths of Being Alone
I did the sum properly the other morning, sitting with the kind of coffee you...
The KDP Gold Rush is Over…
Why It’s Time to Stop Buying the Hype and Build a Real Audience If you...
The Cruelty of Digital Immortality
I have always found it fascinating that humanity seems incapable of leaving well alone. Give...
The Death of the Third Place (Again)
and Why You’ll Soon Be Paying to Be Spoken to Nicely I live in a...
The Loneliest Time in Human History…
And We Barely Talk About It There is an irony to modern life that would...
