Stuff Blowing Up
On highlight reels, hollow empires, and the ancient art of not knowing you’ve already lost.
Breaking News Is Mostly Broken - Dominus Owen Markham
By Dominus Owen Markham There’s a peculiar genre of modern media that deserves its own category. Not journalism. Not analysis. Something closer to theatre performed with a microphone and a red…
The Noise They Need You To Make
There’s a version of silence that frightens people in power.Thanks for reading Unharnessed!
WW3 - We’re Already In It - Dominus Owen Markham
And most of us are too comfortable to notice Let me say the thing out loud that most people are dancing around. We are already in a world war. Not approaching one. Not on the brink of one.
Retirement…Change of Pace? - Dominus Owen Markham
Let me start with a small piece of admin. I have just hit a fairly significant milestone. Technically retired, six decades-plus of life under my belt, and now waiting on a UK State Pension that I have…
When Power No Longer Waits for Agreement
The latest US government shutdown barely registered.
The Great Geopolitical Shuffle - Dominus Owen Markham
So here we are. January 2026. Keir Starmer’s just touched down in Beijing for the first time a British prime minister has visited China in eight years, and I’m sitting here watching the entire…
View from the Cave: The “Board of Peace” and the Art of Geopolitical Gaslighting
Greetings from the depths of Andalusia (Spain). It’s damp, dark, and the bats are currently having a heated debate about ceiling hierarchy, but I can assure you, it makes infinitely more sense than…
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