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My apologies to the teddy bears
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 17 August 2026 My dear little bears, please forgive me today, I hurried and […]
Seeking assistance with civilian evacuations from Kramatorsk
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 16 August 2026 There are moments in a war when the most valuable thing […]
The Burnham Doctrine: Keynes, Defence and the Reindustrialisation of Britain
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 16 August 2026 Andy Burnham has inherited one of those moments in British history […]
The AI Bubble, the Debt Beneath It and the Next Federal Reserve Rescue
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 16 August 2026 There are two quite different propositions that are frequently confused in […]
How Many Men Can Russia Lose?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 16 August 2026 There is a grim arithmetic at the centre of Russia’s war […]
Philosophy: the discipline at the apex of the social sciences
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 15 August 2026 The study of any discipline is, at its best, an attempt […]
A Maritime Truce? Ukraine’s Proposal for Peace upon the Black Sea
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 15 August 2026 There are moments in wars when the most promising diplomacy begins […]
The Emptying of Free Donbas
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 15 August 2026 There is a particular kind of military victory that does not […]
Putin’s Maritime Threat: Can Russia Really Seize European Ships?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 15 August 2026 Vladimir Putin has introduced a potentially dangerous new dimension into the […]
The Engine Beneath the Oracle: How Large Language Models Actually Work
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 14 August 2026 A large language model is an extraordinarily elaborate prediction machine. That […]
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