Philip Thicknesse

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Imagining 2030 is a series in which PS21 writers describe the world as they see it in 14 years time.

Captain Hutchinson first appeared in the Imagining 2030 piece Deportations and Terror. He has returned again for part two of his Imagining 2030 story.

Hutchinson got home just over three weeks after sailing north from the Falklands. After a quick handover to the oncoming Master, he was picked up at the dockside by his wife’s Amazon LiOn, a self driving electric car that she had dispatched to meet him. 45 minutes later he arrived at their house,  which sat on the edge of one of the many villages around the edge of Dartmoor in southwest England. …  Seguir leyendo »

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Imagining 2030 is a series in which PS21 writers describe the world as they see it in 14 years time.

‘Stop both engines.’

With a visible sigh of relief, Captain Hutchinson returned the conning microphone to its waterproofed box on the starboard bridge wing and took a moment to study the scenery around him. The last hour of the three week passage down the Atlantic had been quite tense as he had conned the converted livestock carrier ‘Marine Manger 1’, now renamed, with some irony, ‘Friendship’, after one of the original first fleet that sailed to Australia more than 200 years before, into the shallow natural harbour of Bright Island, on the western extremity of the Falklands.…  Seguir leyendo »

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While it is immensely difficult to place oneself in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position and to see the world as he and Russia undoubtedly see it, there are things that we do know.

The first is that Russia has always seen itself as encircled and threatened, a condition exacerbated by the West since the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A simple exercise with a globe can help to demonstrate this. Rotate it until Moscow is in the center and then scan the points of the compass. To the north, over the pole, is the United States; to the east, China; to the south, Islam, and to the west, Europe, the European Union and NATO.…  Seguir leyendo »