Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
The Machine Acquires an Office: A Briefing on AI Agents, Machine Learning and Cryptography
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 18 August 2026 Artificial intelligence is passing through an institutional transformation. For several years […]
Russia’s Southern Anchor: The Geopolitics of Moscow’s Military Build-Up in Libya
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 18 August 2026 For much of the period since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi […]
The Freedom of the War Zone
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 18 August 2026 There is an obvious paradox in describing life in an active […]
Will I become a Blade Runner?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 18 August 2026 There is something faintly disconcerting about discovering that the science fiction […]
Is Vladimir Putin Pathologically Afraid for His Life?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 17 August 2026 There is an odd paradox at the centre of Vladimir Putin’s […]
Is ChatGPT Getting Better?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 17 August 2026 There is a peculiar difficulty in measuring the progress of artificial […]
Is Lviv Due Another Heavy Russian Strike?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 17 August 2026 There is a temptation, when living through a war of missiles […]
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 […]



