is a writer on international affairs, globalisation, conflict and other issues. He is the founder and executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century; PS21, a non-national, non-partisan, non-ideological think tank. Paralysed by a war-zone car crash in 2006, he also blogs about his disability and other topics. He was previously a reporter for Reuters and continues to be paid by Thomson Reuters. Since 2016, he has been a member of the British Army Reserve and the UK Labour Party.
Currently, AI is at its best when it is dealing with machines and objects. Attempts to understand human activity, experts say, will inevitably lag behind
While occupants of the Kremlin have long argued their focus remains defensive, for Russia’s neighbours the consequence has often felt more like subjugation
Four years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia is taking advantage of the energy crisis sparked by the Ukraine war to rehabilitate and reposition itself with diplomatic partners
The lessons of last year's rout, however, go well beyond Afghanistan as the national security establishments of Washington and its allies have refocused hard, driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine an ...