Selected Writing

The machines are not taking over. The bills are. The two stories we are told about AI are not rivals.

The initial American intervention in Iran exposed real vulnerability. Escalation created a quagmire risk. Recent pressure and Iranian overreach may be loosening the knot.

A Labour minister called warm ale, a Labrador and a village pub a far-right nostalgic vision. From the public bar, that is not nostalgia. It is Tuesday.

A real-world trial of Freshkask at The Vine Inn.

When unity is low on the southern agenda and Stormont is functioning, Garvaghy Road is dusted off.

Devolution gave nationalists a permanent redoubt. Strategic, economic and security realities still make break-up far from inevitable.

A founding is greater than a widening, and a founding does not get a moral free pass.

Five men on bail after RAF Fairford. The comedy hides a deeper vulnerability. Pay to slay. Pay-as-you-go terrorism.

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter called the country pub a far-right picture that never existed. The public bar says otherwise.

The Garvaghy Road row is less about a 35-man parade than about a party that still needs the old script.