The Wisdom of Crowds
Since the beginning of the “age of the common man” in the nineteenth century, there has been a widely held…
Non-Fiction
Why SOE gave away Britain’s top war secret to the Nazis
At a crucial stage of World War II, the Special Operations Executive deliberately allowed one of its most closely guarded…
How to tell bad companies
Some years back, I published a book titled Bad Company: Behind the corporate mask, which the Sunday Times was generous enough to…
Afghanistan – 4, Britain – 0
When British troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001 together with the U.S., it wasn’t the first time, or the second, or…
Explaining coincidences (away)
There’s nothing the Provisional Wing of parapsychology enjoys more than debunking so-called anomalous events by citing the gullibility and scientific…
Britain muddles through – on propaganda
One of the British government’s first acts of war in 1939 was to form the Ministry of Information to combat…
The telegram that lost Germany the war
In early 1917, the First World War had reached a crisis. Both sides were exhausted. Millions of men had been…
The mystery of the green stones
Isn’t it amazing what you can find just lying around? A friend told me about a field near my village…
Can science be “alternative”?
Some years ago I published a book titled Forbidden Science (Alternative Science in the US) and came in for considerable…
Did the Civil War make the U.S. leaders in global trade?
On 13th February 1866, members of the Jesse James gang entered the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri, in…