Andy Owen
@andyowen.bsky.social
Philosophy, ethics & geopolitics.
Author of Land of the Blind
Veteran.
Author of Land of the Blind
Veteran.
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The prevalence of hybrid war is increasing. | https://iai.tv/articles/we-must-fight-to-prevent-war-auid-3443
Former British Intelligence officer Andy Owen argues the same game-theoretic logic we apply to hot wars needs to be applied in hybrid warfare too.
Former British Intelligence officer Andy Owen argues the same game-theoretic logic we apply to hot wars needs to be applied in hybrid warfare too.
We must fight to prevent war
<p><em>The prevalence of hybrid war is increasing. From Russian drones flying into NATO airspace, to cyberattacks and political interference, to the US seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker, war is now rare...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The prevalence of hybrid war is increasing. | https://iai.tv/articles/we-must-fight-to-prevent-war-auid-3443
Former British Intelligence officer Andy Owen argues the same game-theoretic logic we apply to hot wars needs to be applied in hybrid warfare too.
Former British Intelligence officer Andy Owen argues the same game-theoretic logic we apply to hot wars needs to be applied in hybrid warfare too.
My review of the excellent Wright of Derby exhibition at the National Gallery: thecritic.co.uk/the-darkness...
The darkness of enlightenment | Andy Owen | The Critic Magazine
The National Gallery’s new Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition brings together his two masterpieces, A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a Lamp is put in the Place of the Sun (1765)...
thecritic.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My review of the excellent Wright of Derby exhibition at the National Gallery: thecritic.co.uk/the-darkness...
For older generations Remembrance Day became synonymous with personal remembering of lost loved ones. As war generations leave us it no longer serves that purpose. By reviving older festivals that remember the dead we can provide new occasions for personal remembrance iai.tv/articles/rem... @iai.tv
Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, and the philosophy of forgetting
As the UK marks 80 years of Remembrance Day, few veterans remain and collective memory fades. This article explores how remembrance has changed—from the Cenotaph’s origins to global rituals of honouri...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For older generations Remembrance Day became synonymous with personal remembering of lost loved ones. As war generations leave us it no longer serves that purpose. By reviving older festivals that remember the dead we can provide new occasions for personal remembrance iai.tv/articles/rem... @iai.tv
On the intense and violent life and art of Caravaggio: thecritic.co.uk/caravaggios-...
Caravaggio’s great extremes | Andy Owen | The Critic Magazine
Last month a painting that Sotheby’s and New York’s Metropolitan Museum had dismissed as a copy has, after analysis by artificial intelligence (AI), been given a 85.7 per cent probability of being an…
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November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
On the intense and violent life and art of Caravaggio: thecritic.co.uk/caravaggios-...
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“Schopenhauer offers no easy remedies to a disease with no final cure, for the living at least, but Bather Woods successfully shows us if your eyes can adjust to his dark vision of the world, there is much to see” @andyowen.bsky.social
How Schopenhauer can change your miserable life | Andy Owen | The Critic Magazine
Philosopher David Bather Woods notes that there is a popular style of philosophical biography that presents the philosopher’s life as a model for how to live well. He tells us his new book on Arthur…
thecritic.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“Schopenhauer offers no easy remedies to a disease with no final cure, for the living at least, but Bather Woods successfully shows us if your eyes can adjust to his dark vision of the world, there is much to see” @andyowen.bsky.social
Honoured to interview the great John Gray at this year’s wonderful #HTLGIFestival @iai.tv
September 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Honoured to interview the great John Gray at this year’s wonderful #HTLGIFestival @iai.tv
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were caught discussing immortality last week, joining the long of those in search of eternal life. | https://bit.ly/4m7T2WU
But author Andy Owen argues that the quest for eternal life is a dangerous mistake.
#polsky
But author Andy Owen argues that the quest for eternal life is a dangerous mistake.
#polsky
Putin, Xi, and the mistaken quest for immortality | Andy Owen
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September 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were caught discussing immortality last week, joining the long of those in search of eternal life. | https://bit.ly/4m7T2WU
But author Andy Owen argues that the quest for eternal life is a dangerous mistake.
#polsky
But author Andy Owen argues that the quest for eternal life is a dangerous mistake.
#polsky
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The two nations have been fighting border skirmishes since the sixties. But a new issue threatens something much worse
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The next India-China war
The two nations have been fighting border skirmishes since the sixties. But a new issue threatens something much worse
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August 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The two nations have been fighting border skirmishes since the sixties. But a new issue threatens something much worse
✏️ Andy Owen
✏️ Andy Owen
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John Gray prophetically called the end of liberalism. | iai.tv/articles/joh...
John Gray's work helped Andy Gray, a former intelligence officer and author of this article, make sense of his time in Afghanistan. They argue we should give up on looking for utopia, or meaning in life at all.
#philsky
John Gray's work helped Andy Gray, a former intelligence officer and author of this article, make sense of his time in Afghanistan. They argue we should give up on looking for utopia, or meaning in life at all.
#philsky
John Gray and the end of the West's utopian dream | Andy Owen
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July 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
John Gray prophetically called the end of liberalism. | iai.tv/articles/joh...
John Gray's work helped Andy Gray, a former intelligence officer and author of this article, make sense of his time in Afghanistan. They argue we should give up on looking for utopia, or meaning in life at all.
#philsky
John Gray's work helped Andy Gray, a former intelligence officer and author of this article, make sense of his time in Afghanistan. They argue we should give up on looking for utopia, or meaning in life at all.
#philsky
Ahead of my conversation with John Gray at this September’s How the Light Gets In Festival at Kenwood House, I was commissioned by the Institute of Art and Ideas to write this piece on John’s on often prophetic and always challenging and fascinating body of work: iai.tv/articles/joh...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Ahead of my conversation with John Gray at this September’s How the Light Gets In Festival at Kenwood House, I was commissioned by the Institute of Art and Ideas to write this piece on John’s on often prophetic and always challenging and fascinating body of work: iai.tv/articles/joh...
Dangerous games: iai.tv/articles/war...
Wars are not about winning: The game theory behind the new world order
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July 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Dangerous games: iai.tv/articles/war...
Seems apt to reshare this from February: “Across the Atlantic another unstable alliance has formed, of a retrograde politician, whose conservative supporters look back towards an unspecified time of greatness, & a forward-looking techno-utopian, united by a desire to sweep away existing norms…”
June 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Seems apt to reshare this from February: “Across the Atlantic another unstable alliance has formed, of a retrograde politician, whose conservative supporters look back towards an unspecified time of greatness, & a forward-looking techno-utopian, united by a desire to sweep away existing norms…”
We should never forget our history of opposition to Nazism, an ideology that ends up with bodies in ovens. An ideology that is anti-British. Our ancestors from throughout the Commonwealth gave their lives so it would remain a stranger to these islands. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/andy-owen-th...
The rise of British Nazis
More and more far right extremists are being jailed - and shrill language by politicians must be partly to blame
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May 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We should never forget our history of opposition to Nazism, an ideology that ends up with bodies in ovens. An ideology that is anti-British. Our ancestors from throughout the Commonwealth gave their lives so it would remain a stranger to these islands. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/andy-owen-th...
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This has been flagged up as "self-harm". There is horrible irony, it shows photographs made by Zoya Shu of Ukrainians tortured by Russians, illustrating a powerful article by journalist Andy Owen. This article does show harm (and indeed a swastika) - etched on human flesh by Russia war criminals.
May 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This has been flagged up as "self-harm". There is horrible irony, it shows photographs made by Zoya Shu of Ukrainians tortured by Russians, illustrating a powerful article by journalist Andy Owen. This article does show harm (and indeed a swastika) - etched on human flesh by Russia war criminals.
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I wish we cared less about access to #Ukraine's minerals and more about the dignity and human rights of its brave people. Great article here from my university buddy Andy Owen www.theneweuropean.co.uk/andy-owen-pu...
Putin’s vanishing prisoners
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have simply disappeared into Putin’s new gulag. No one knows whether they’re alive or dead
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May 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I wish we cared less about access to #Ukraine's minerals and more about the dignity and human rights of its brave people. Great article here from my university buddy Andy Owen www.theneweuropean.co.uk/andy-owen-pu...
Why The Odyssey matters: thecritic.co.uk/why-the-odys...
Why the Odyssey matters | Andy Owen | The Critic Magazine
Excitement is growing around Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film version of the Odyssey, fuelled by both his status as a storyteller and the story he is adapting. Goethe called Homer’s the Iliad…
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May 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Why The Odyssey matters: thecritic.co.uk/why-the-odys...
“The continuum of American leadership rather than one specific leader has fulfilled the role of Pericles. Trump’s return is analogous with the plague that killed him. Xi will attempt to manoeuvre himself to the vacant centre of the web” iai.tv/articles/tru...
Trump, tariffs, and the lessons to learn from Machiavelli | Andy Owen
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April 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“The continuum of American leadership rather than one specific leader has fulfilled the role of Pericles. Trump’s return is analogous with the plague that killed him. Xi will attempt to manoeuvre himself to the vacant centre of the web” iai.tv/articles/tru...
On what we can learn from the political realism of Machiavelli, Thucydides and Hobbes to answer the question "how do those not at the table understand the new order and protect themselves from the worst impacts of it?" For @iai.tv iai.tv/articles/tru...
Trump, tariffs, and the lessons to learn from Machiavelli | Andy Owen
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April 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
On what we can learn from the political realism of Machiavelli, Thucydides and Hobbes to answer the question "how do those not at the table understand the new order and protect themselves from the worst impacts of it?" For @iai.tv iai.tv/articles/tru...
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Donald Trump is threatening over 2000 years of Western thought. | buff.ly/kVdbUfk
@andyowen.bsky.social argues that we are currently witnessing the end of liberal humanism, driven by Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
#USPolitics #philsky
@andyowen.bsky.social argues that we are currently witnessing the end of liberal humanism, driven by Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
#USPolitics #philsky
The End of the West means even more than you think | Andy Owen
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March 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Donald Trump is threatening over 2000 years of Western thought. | buff.ly/kVdbUfk
@andyowen.bsky.social argues that we are currently witnessing the end of liberal humanism, driven by Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
#USPolitics #philsky
@andyowen.bsky.social argues that we are currently witnessing the end of liberal humanism, driven by Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
#USPolitics #philsky
Reading Moby Dick in the mid-2000s it seemed like an analogy for the War on Terror. Re-reading it in 2025, Ahab morphed from the terrorist leader I first saw him as, though the book's vivid demonstration of the power of demagoguery, to a populist politician. merionwest.com/2025/02/26/w... #MobyDick
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February 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reading Moby Dick in the mid-2000s it seemed like an analogy for the War on Terror. Re-reading it in 2025, Ahab morphed from the terrorist leader I first saw him as, though the book's vivid demonstration of the power of demagoguery, to a populist politician. merionwest.com/2025/02/26/w... #MobyDick
On Monday evening at @chathamhouse.bsky.social the impressive Ukrainian human rights lawyer & Nobel Prize winner @avalaina.bsky.social asked what justice for Ukraine should look like. Latest in @theneweuropean.bsky.social: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/andy-owen-wh...
What does real justice for Ukraine look like?
The country’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk wants forgotten victims released and war criminals punished. But those hopes seem further away than ever
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February 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
On Monday evening at @chathamhouse.bsky.social the impressive Ukrainian human rights lawyer & Nobel Prize winner @avalaina.bsky.social asked what justice for Ukraine should look like. Latest in @theneweuropean.bsky.social: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/andy-owen-wh...
