Who is really threatening us?
Is the behaviour of the current Russian leadership due to its feeling of unlimited power and that it can afford absolutely anything? Or is it more because it feels threatened…
Hope the Alien doesn’t exist
American reporter Lara Logan used to be a mainstream star. The kind of correct type who interviews Barack Obama, rails against conservatives and gets her due. But somehow she’s gone…
Ukraine, migration and foreign interests
The Russians are fighting the Ukrainians. The Turks are defending their own interests and the Americans are defending completely different ones. The media are full of such acronyms and pub…
The poor fatologists
So there was another case where some jokester generated a bunch of words and phrases basically at random, sent it as a paper to a scientific conference, it was peer-reviewed,…
Crimes, emotions and logical thinking
The Pentagon cannot confirm or deny reports of the Bucha massacre. Social media commentators are quite clear. So what exactly do we know. There have been reports that the Russian…
The subtle aggressiveness of snowflakes
In an article on Unherd, Sussex philosophy professor Kathleen Stock recalls that until a couple of decades ago, quite acrimonious debates were held in lecture halls, with the aim of…