US president Dwight Eisenhower warned in 1961 ‘we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex’ (MIC). The idea that…

Don’t hate us because we are an island, there are much better reasons. Just one of those odd details of life. A funny little quirk of urban left…

Drones have had a bit of a moment with Ukraine, where they are presented as evening up the fight, providing a cheap way of countering Ukraine’s disadvantages in…

One of the predictions made in global health was that as low/mid income countries became wealthier, their populations would adopt the illnesses characteristic of high income counties. Causes…

The concept of ‘the user’ or ‘person who uses drugs’ is central to how we talk about drug supply and distribution. It implies a singular individual who has…

When the whole world has been opened to capital, there is nowhere to expand into. There are no more sources of cheap labour or raw materials, and no…

I want to engage with a type of argument that is self-undermining. The months after Al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 birthed an immoral decision….

One of the annoying things academic competition does is push us to develop elaborate ways of not quite saying what is staring us in the face. There is…

…really just one social fact Crime is behaviour that is intentional, measurable and directly harmful. The only reason to care about crime is that it gets in the…