Nominees for the Least-Interesting Tragedy
The global spotlight is a remarkably fickle thing, isn’t it? It possesses the attention span of a toddler hopped up on espresso, darting frantically from one loud, cinematic catastrophe to the next…
We’re All Russians Now - Dominus Owen Markham
A woman is sitting in a Moscow café right now, doing something that would have seemed utterly paranoid ten years ago. She’s got two phones on the table. She opens the first one, connects to a VPN…
The Global Tinderbox - Dominus Owen Markham
If you’ve been paying any attention to the mainstream news cycles lately, you’d be forgiven for thinking the world’s geopolitical strife begins and ends in Eastern Europe or the Middle East.
We Were the Children Who Knew - Dominus Owen Markham
There’s a particular kind of childhood that doesn’t come with a name. No one ever coined a phrase for it, no therapist built a framework around it, no generation got a catchy label. We were just…
The Stabbing Was Real. So Was Everything That Followed.
A man lies in hospital fighting for his life after an appalling attack in Belfast.
Selling Sand to the Arabs - Dominus Owen Markham
There’s an old expression in British business culture. When someone pulls off an almost comically unnecessary sale, when they convince a buyer to purchase something they already have in obscene…
Two Boys at a Track Meet - Dominus Owen Markham
It was raining in Frisco, Texas. That’s where this starts. Not with race. Not with politics. Not with the Twitter armies that would spend the next fourteen months turning two teenagers into symbols.
Two Boys at a Track Meet - Dominus Owen Markham
It was raining in Frisco, Texas. That’s where this starts. Not with race. Not with politics. Not with the Twitter armies that would spend the next fourteen months turning two teenagers into symbols.
The Sterile Screen - Dominus Owen Markham
A curious thing happens whenever the subject of falling birth rates comes up. Within minutes, economists arrive carrying charts, politicians begin talking about affordability…
Dominus Markham