Publications by pp_editor
Europe’s forthcoming ban on Russian gas tankers
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 25 July 2026 Before armies advance, financiers calculate and insurers hesitate. Before governments issue […]
What Is It Like to Be a Large Language Model?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 25 July 2026 In 1974 the philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question […]
Bringing Europe’s Margins into the Union: Enlargement in an Age of Frozen Conflicts
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 24 July 2026 The European Union has long defined itself as a peace project. […]
Gödel, Consciousness and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 24 July 2026 The contemporary debate over whether large language models might one day […]
Blade Runner and the Contemporary Imagination of Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, released in 1982 and set in a […]
What the Balkan Wars Can — and Cannot — Teach Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Every war acquires its own mythology. Those searching for guidance instinctively […]
Why the Stereotype? Fidelity, Society and Relationships in Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Few national stereotypes are as casually repeated as the assertion that […]
The Drone Arms Race Accelerates — Russia’s Jet-Powered Shaheds and Ukraine’s Search for Speed
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 The war in Ukraine has repeatedly demonstrated that no military innovation […]
The Advocate in the Dock: Why the Rajiv Menon KC Contempt Proceedings Raise Profound Questions About Judicial Power
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 23 July 2026 Every legal system worthy of the name depends upon an uncomfortable […]
“And Suddenly Everything Felt So Meaningless”: Hämatom Guitarist Jacek Żyła on the Band’s Return to Ukraine
By Kathrin Franziska Beck German metal band Hämatom, formed in 2004 in the Upper Franconian town of Speichersdorf, are set […]
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