America
The Path to a Free, Secure, and Prosperous Society
As I write this on Sunday, March 8, 2026 the US is at war with Iran. There has been much propaganda leading up to the joint US/Israeli attack. One, that Iran is a threat to [more…]
War
20th Century
Tanker Wars
All has changed. Or has it? We have been here before, literally. The Puffin is a well-travelled bird with a good memory and can recall rolling dunes, desert villages, remote sun-drenched harbours and trails of [more…]
America
Epstein……Behind the Curtain (Part 4)
The Cambridge Analytica scandal rendered the machinery visible to civilians for the first time. The backdoor that Thiel’s early involvement had helped install allowed external entities to access not merely the data of individual Facebook [more…]
Engineering
Plain Sailing towards a Future Navy?
Although the present crisis in the Gulf has provoked both mockery and concern at the thinness of the Navy, a lump came to the throat all the same when seeing HMS Dragon finally leave Portsmouth [more…]
America
Epstein……Behind the Curtain (Part 3)
Epstein and Nowak were consumed by the trajectory of the human species and by what they perceived as the catastrophic implications of “reverse Darwinism” — the proposition that as technological civilisation advances, the biological substrate [more…]
America
Starmer the Unready
Much to the world’s delight, well who doesn’t like to laugh at the discomfort of other countries, we are highly embarrassed by the state of our Navy. This has all come about because of our [more…]
21st Century
Shipshape or All at Sea?
Last Saturday’s article, I See No Ships, proved to be prescient as, while the ink dried on the 28th February piece, Israel and America began their attack on Iran. In retaliation, drone and missile attacks [more…]
America
Epstein……Behind the Curtain (Part 2)
When President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19, 2025, and the Department of Justice subsequently disgorged approximately 3.5 million pages of documents, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos distributed across twelve separate [more…]
21st Century
I See No Ships?
The quote ‘I see no ships’ is attributed to Admiral John Jervis during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797. Before giving Johnny Spaniard a black eye off the Algarve, legend has it that, [more…]