Publications by pp_editor
Ukraine’s Octopus interceptor drone
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor In the context of her ongoing struggle against the Russian Federation, Ukraine has increasingly turned […]
The Russian Revolutions, 1917 and 1989
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The Russian revolutions of 1917 and 1989 stand as two turning points that reshaped not […]
Compassion as Weakness?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The moral status of compassion in political life reveals how societies understand authority, fear, security, […]
Could Large Language Models Replace Voters, Politicians, Lawyers and Judges?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The rapid emergence of large language models has revived an old philosophical inquiry: whether political […]
The Prospects of a Second War between Israel and Iran
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The possibility of a second full-scale war between Israel and Iran has become one of […]
Loss of Russian refinery capacity
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Ukraineโs strikes on Russian refineries have created two very different numbers: a large headline share […]
Are Large Language Models Conscious?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly the Philosophical Investigations, reshaped the philosophical landscape by […]
The Russian Military Formation Rubikon
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Amongst the many experimental and improvised formations that have emerged from the Russian war effort […]
The effect of US Russia sanctions upon Serbia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor On 22 October 2025 the US administration designated Russiaโs two largest oil companies, Rosneft and […]
How to Speak to an Artificial Intelligence Large Language Model
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The rapid ascendancy of artificial intelligence in the form of large language models has created […]



