Do you find the world baffling, overwhelming, or just plain sad? Are you losing hope of the belief we can each change at least something for the better? These days I am morbidly fascinated by how paralysed so many of us feel: afflicted by the sense we have no agency to affect the political and […]
Cognitive warfare – what exactly will you be thinking?
Last week I read two apparently completely unrelated articles: one about rapid advancements in cognitive-warfare – the other about the launch of a new chocolate company. And it is the way in which these radically-different ventures actually dovetail that intrigues me. The first article was actually an advertising feature paid for by British Aerospace (BAE) […]
The extreme death of rights
These febrile days I’m cautious to use words like ‘extremism’. Always provocative, this term now raise fires, especially on social media. But sometimes it is accurate. Such as to describe a government policy of imposing the death penalty exclusively on a population living in a territory occupied by military forces – and where some of […]
Coll-ecting my dark thoughts whilst afloat in the Hebrides
So I’ve just spent almost a week on Coll. A three-hour ferry sail due West of Oban it’s a wind-scoured little Hebridean isle; on a map it looks like a fish with a big bite ripped out of its tail The ferry docks at the island’s only village, Arinagour; though in winter sometimes it […]
