The Trust Crisis - Dominus Owen Markham
There’s a sentence that gets wheeled out at every Davos panel, every NGO briefing, every quietly funded think-tank report with a title like Rebuilding the Social Contract, and it goes something like…
The Same Ward, A Different Body - Dominus Owen Markham
Donna Ockenden’s name has appeared at the top of three of these reports now, which makes her less a one-off investigator and more something closer to a recurring diagnosis. This week the trust is…
Forever Chemicals, Forever Lawyers: - Dominus Owen Markham
Let’s start with the bit that should ruin everyone’s day. In 1950, a 3M study found that the chemical family now known as PFAS could build up in human blood. By the 1960s, animal studies conducted by…
The Reheated Apocalypse - Dominus Owen Markham
Somewhere in a newsroom this week, an editor looked at a slow Tuesday and decided what the world needed was the story of Romania’s hospitals going back to pen and paper. Compelling stuff. Hackers…
Music Is the Closest Thing We Have to Time Travel
A curious thing happens as you get older. You can walk into a room, forget why you went there, struggle to remember the name of an actor you’ve watched for twenty years, and yet a song you have not…
The Girl Who Cried Carbon Neutral - Dominus Owen Markham
There’s a certain kind of modern celebrity defence that goes: I wasn’t even on the plane. Taylor Swift’s people have wheeled this one out more than once now, and each time I hear it I picture a fifty…
The Same Car, A Different Driver - Dominus Owen Markham
I watched Keir Starmer resign this morning the way I watch most British political theatre these days… with the sound down and the subtitles on, half-believing it, half-waiting for the punchline.
Dominus Markham
