Dig Baby Dig, the third and final part of The Arsenal Trilogy. A work of fiction composed entirely of real facts. Four people. One Uber. One lockup. One van. Six minutes. This is the story of what happens when thirty years of quietly selling off Britain’s defence infrastructure meets one single point of failure.
Millions of square feet of tanks, vehicles and equipment sit ready for war, or do they? The first part of The Arsenal Trilogy explores how capability dies long before the hardware disappears.
The creatives went first. The photographers followed. If you think you are safe, you are already in the road with the traffic coming.
A night in the pub with old friends becomes something stranger and more beautiful as memories pull us back through time and youth briefly returns.
Britain built aircraft carriers to look like a superpower but forgot to build the navy that makes them useful. The result is prestige without capability.
A memory from Basra and a warning about how war has changed. The next battle will not look like the last one, and those who forget that are walking into a kill zone.
Some journalism informs the public. Some journalism endangers it. This piece is about the moment a newspaper crossed that line.
The world is lurching toward an economic and military crisis driven by strategic miscalculation, and the consequences are far larger than one decision or one leader.
A short tribute to a life well lived, a meditation on time, memory and the silence that follows loss.