Publications by pp_editor
The concept of beauty in the worlds of artificial intelligence and social media
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 The concept of beauty has always been a social artefact. While […]
Does Meta have a backdoor into WhatsApp?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 In late January 2026 a controversy emerged at the intersection of […]
Sabotage? A Russian vessel dropped anchor in British waters
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 When a Russian-flagged cargo ship drops anchor, that is normally a […]
Eight sanctioned shadow fleet vessels passing through the English Channel
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 The sight of eight sanctioned Russian “shadow fleet” vessels transiting the […]
The Russian mobile data ban
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 Russia’s newest experiment in information control is not, strictly speaking, a […]
A day in Kramatorsk on the eastern front
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 A day in Kramatorsk begins without ceremony. There is no clean […]
Trafigura’s new deals with India: non-Russian barrels
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 In the normally opaque world of oil trading, a single phrase […]
Have large language models discredited journalism?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 A quiet question now hangs over almost every article we read […]
Russian Urals crude offshore storage
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 31 January 2026 In the winter of 2026 a small but telling spectacle has […]
Fixing Ukrainian conscription
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 31 January 2026 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s instruction to Ukraine’s newly appointed Defence Minister, Mykhailo […]
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