Archive for the ‘politics’ Category

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. Wikipedia – Queueing theory This is timely, as the big news of the day is that our Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, wants all pupils to study maths to age 18. So maybe this is one of the things people should be learning about (in […]


TL;DR Details of how the Labour party used an ersatz SIGINT operation against it’s own (prospective) members and supporters have come to light in the Forde Inquiry. This provides confirmation that the National Executive Committee (NEC) were excluding people for political expression on social media that didn’t align to their chosen ideology. Background Almost six […]


Dear Mims Davies, It’s been three months since I last wrote to you about Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s unsuitability, and nothing has happened in that time to exculpate him. In fact it is clearer than ever that he broke the law, repeatedly lied about it to parliament, and has declared no intention to resign […]


Black Sea ’93

12Mar22

The last few weeks have had me reflecting a lot on my time in Russia and Ukraine almost 30y ago… When I joined the Royal Navy in ’89 we were definitely living in ‘interesting times’. The defence studies lecturers at Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) Dartmouth were tearing up talks they’d used for decades as […]


Dear Mims Davies, I write to express my disgust at the Prime Minister hiding behind Sue Gray’s enquiry. He may have spent his over privileged lifetime being able to pay people off, or litigate his way out of trouble. But he can’t pay off the British public, and litigation won’t work this time around. Nobody […]


TL;DR My ad blocker has been hiding things from me. Mostly things that I don’t want to see. But what we do see, and what we don’t see, is all part of crafting bespoke realities. Background My friend Ben Ford frequently says “What we perceive as reality is an internal simulation of our interaction with […]


###Letter #6 Delivered 19 Sep 21 Hi Craig, Heeding your words about not getting research done I’ve decided to keep to a weekly cadence. I’m now wondering which Lord George Murray you’re researching, as a quick search brings up a few of them over the years? It’s good to hear that books are making it […]


Here begins a new series for this blog… I’ve been writing to Craig Murray whilst he serves his prison sentence for contempt of court arising from his reporting of the Alex Salmond trial. I don’t recall how I first came across Craig, and his first book Murder in Samarkand, but I’ve been a keen follower […]


This is the blog version of a Twitter conversation with my colleague Graham Chastney. Huawei, and the war on trade POTUS #45 has been pursuing a ‘trade war’ with China, as this appears to be popular with his base, even though it makes stuff more expensive for them and will ultimately harm the US economy. […]


TL;DR If you can persuade people that their side is going to win without their vote, then perhaps just enough of them won’t bother to show up that you can steal the win. Background The two countries that I spend most of my time in (the UK and US) continue to recoil from the effects […]