Murrination Insights

The terminators are comming! While the majority of the world’s armed forces are still struggling to catch up with the lessons emerging from the war in Ukraine—particularly in…

We have long argued that the onset of World War III effectively began in 2022 with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, undertaken with Xi Jinping’s full support. Nearly four years later,…

The Renaissance took place roughly between the 14th and 17th centuries (c. 1300–1600 CE), though its exact timing varied by region. It began in Italy, particularly in cities such as…

What if we are not alone even within our own bodies? What if many of the everyday impulses that drive our behaviour—cravings, mood swings, energy crashes and even some destructive…

The defining struggle of our age is not being fought primarily with tanks, missiles, or even cyber weapons, but within the immune systems of our decaying Western societies…

In Breaking the Code of History, written more than two decades ago, I warned that climate change would prove far more unstable and consequential than was then assumed. One of its…

This Murrination series examines how human civilisations have historically understood their own rise and fall, tracing the evolution of thought from retrospective observation to the…

While Thucydides famously described the trap, he did not explicitly identify the mechanism of compression that caused it to snap shut. As Athenian power grew to challenge Spartan…

Russia’s penetration of Western political leadership is not an aberration of the post Cold War era but the logical…