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Intelligence

Book Review

A fair-minded and dispassionate history of the CIA

Hugh Wilford treats the reader to a captivating cast of characters and makes telling connections

Toby Harnden

How Bayes’s theorem ‘explains the world’

In Everything is Predictable, Tom Chivers spends a lot of time-discussing the importance of subjectivity in Bayesian statistics

Alexander Masters

A world without ‘cognitive discrimination’

Lionel Shriver’s Mania is provocative, stimulating and outrageous

Brian Martin

How China spies

The intelligence community has its work cut out to counter CCP espionage

Nigel Inkster

London Life

The cult of cleverness

Cleverness is overrated

Cosmo Landesman

Politics
April 18, 2023
Jack Teixeira and our crisis of trust
We can’t trust him — or the media or the government
Peter Van Buren
International
April 16, 2023
The US intel leak and spy world hypocrisy
Everyone and everything leak
Mark Galeotti
International
January 9, 2023
How AI could change diplomacy forever
AIs have the untiring speed of a computer and the capacity to learn the analytic leaps of human intuition
Mark Galeotti
Politics
April 6, 2022
Stopping the next Hunter Biden laptop cover-up
The only disinformation op in 2020 was run against American voters by their own intelligence community
Peter Van Buren
Politics
March 19, 2022
NY Post shames intel officials who flacked for Hunter Biden
‘SPIES WHO LIE,’ proclaims their latest cover
Cockburn
Science & Tech
August 26, 2021
Don’t be surprised by the inconclusive ‘intelligence’ report into COVID’s origins
Why do incompetence and conspiracy have to be mutually exclusive?
Grace Curley
Politics
May 6, 2021
Don’t worry, the Central Intersectional Agency is watching you
Soon even the Illuminati will be an equal opportunities employer with an intersectional Latinx woman as CEO
They/Them
Books
October 15, 2020
Behind the veil of secrecy: GCHQ emerges from the shadows
Behind the Enigma: The Authorized History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency by John Ferris reviewed
Sinclair McKay
September 10, 2020
Too much learning is a dangerous thing
Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect by David Goodhart reviewed
James Bloodworth
Politics
October 28, 2019
The shallow state
A real Deep State would have stopped Trump winning in the first place
Paul Wood

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