Archive - Fiction & Persuasion

The Bear & The Price of Excellence

The philosophy at the heart of the best show on TV

Jun 27 •

May 2024

Truth & Spectacle in the AI Era

What would Stanley Kubrick have made of AI creative tools?

May 30 •

April 2024

The Ministry Of The Imagination

Policy ideas from a government department that doesn't (yet) exist

Apr 24 •

March 2024

The Experience Renaissance?

It's the best of times, and the worst of times, for IRL experiences.

Mar 28 •

January 2024

New Year & The Multitudes Within

An open letter to anyone who's already abandoned their New Year's Resolutions

Jan 16 •

December 2023

Ted Lasso & Emily in Paris vs Henry Kissinger

What its most popular TV says about America in 2023

Dec 5, 2023 •

November 2023

High Speed Read #5: In Homage To The Bear, Bourdain and Boiling Point

Nov 7, 2023 •

2:27

October 2023

The Lost Loves of Brexit

What I gained and the UK lost in the last decade

Oct 3, 2023 •

August 2023

The Brazilian Dispatch of London, England

We interrupt your schedule for a field report from our man in Brazil's North-East

Aug 30, 2023 •

June 2023

Mind War & Psy-Ops

Where creative persuasion meets its shadow twin

Jun 20, 2023 •

May 2023

High Speed Read: The Train To The End of the World

Obsession and death on a railway in the Brazilian Amazon

May 17, 2023 •

2:23

April 2023

The Perils of Fandom

Are you building a community or being captured by your audience?

Apr 25, 2023 •

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