What The Net, Enemy of the State, and Hackers understood about the future, and why nobody listened. There is a particular kind of humiliation reserved for people who laughed at something that turned out to be correct. It is subtler than being wrong, being wrong is at least honest. This
One would like to think that democracy is a robust old oak, weathered by centuries of world wars, plagues, and the occasional questionable royal succession. But as we stagger through early 2026, it turns out the democracy is less like an oak and more like a high-end sourdough starter: temperamental,
Executives rarely imagine themselves as intelligence targets. This is understandable. Espionage sounds glamorous and dangerous, whereas most senior leadership work involves emails, meetings, flights, and pretending to enjoy panel discussions. Unfortunately, this is exactly why OPSEC matters in business: modern intelligence work is not glamorous either. It is mostly admin,
There are many ways to measure disaster. Meteorologists have wind speeds, seismologists have magnitudes, economists have charts that go down and to the right in an unsettling shade of red. None of these, however, answer the question most people actually ask during a crisis, which is: can I still function
There is a soothing bedtime story that the technology sector tells itself, regulators, and occasionally users. It goes like this: people are in control. They choose their settings. They exercise preferences. They consent. They manage their digital lives like calm little sysadmins of the self. This is, of course, nonsense.
At some point between the invention of TikTok and the disappearance of boredom, modern teenagers developed an attention span measurable only in marine biology terms. Specifically: jellyfish. You may recognise the symptoms. You begin a sentence with “When I was your age...” and by the word “was” your child is
There comes a point in a technical career when you realise two things at once. First, that you no longer need a degree to do your job. Second, that the world is quietly punishing you for not having one anyway. You already earn enough money that food choices are no
So, we’re sitting here in 2025, and everyone is patting themselves on the back because we’ve finally got a "British" tech unicorn that isn’t just a food delivery app. Enter Anduril. It’s got the cool name, the "defense disruptor" branding, and it’
The early internet was sold to us as a triumph of Enlightenment values: a frictionless marketplace of ideas; a global coffeehouse where facts would politely elbow superstition aside, democracy would flourish, and everyone would finally admit you were right all along. What we actually built looks less like a salon
Remember when having more friends was supposed to make you a better person? More friends = more perspectives = more empathy, right? Well, a new study makes precisely the sort of claim that feels like your dad yelling at a cloud: greater social connectivity has paradoxically made societies more polarized. Not “we
Redhill is the sort of English town that exists primarily to prove that not everything needs a backstory. It has parks, polite brick houses, a station that mostly works, and shops selling items you didn’t realise people still bought. You could live there for years without suspecting that history
If you strip away the science fiction trappings, the massive underground generator, the retro-futuristic computers, and the spiraling concrete staircase, the television series Silo reveals itself to be less of a mystery box and more of a mirror. While we watch the residents of the Silo scramble for truth in