When was the last time research really shook your thinking up?
Drones have had a bit of a moment with Ukraine, where they are presented as evening up the fight, providing…
Dontcha wish your PM was hawt like me?
‘If you want a picture of the future, Winston, imagine a coddled manbaby dancing at his wedding to his sixth…
Diseases of affluence, without the affluence
One of the predictions made in global health was that as low/mid income countries became wealthier, their populations would adopt…
The post-user and the digital drug market
The concept of ‘the user’ or ‘person who uses drugs’ is central to how we talk about drug supply and…
When did capitalism stop being any good?
When the whole world has been opened to capital, there is nowhere to expand into. There are no more sources…
Ontological problems are research problems
Ontology (‘what is’) is a topic students often have difficulty grappling with in their work. It tends to end up…
Three and a half rules for applying for academic posts
As Olivia Rodrigo so wisely said ‘it’s brutal out there’. But we are never so brutal as with ourselves. Apply…
Naming paragraphs as part of the writing process
In my quest to expose the writing process I have structured this paper using named paragraphs. Each paragraph has a…
Docs and podcasts for my Illicit Markets course
Cultural accounts of illicit markets and criminal activities are the best way to develop a feel for them. Here are…
It is lucky police AI is crap. What if it worked?
I want to engage with a type of argument that is self-undermining. The months after Al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York…
