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Allan Milne Lees

A Christmas Poem

Something important to remember during our festivities

6d ago

A Christmas Poem

6d ago

The Conundrum Before Christmas

Why each year forces an obese elderly male to suffer psychological trauma and confront existential questions

Dec 21

The Conundrum Before Christmas

Dec 21

A World Of Free Ice-Cream-Related Crashes

How our belief that we’re entitled to things without any concomitant responsibility is the root of our many and frequent disasters

Dec 20

A World Of Free Ice-Cream-Related Crashes

Dec 20

How The Mighty Fall

Why qualification-free representative democracy inevitably creates systemic weakness from which recovery is impossible

Dec 16

How The Mighty Fall

Dec 16

The Slow Cousin Begins To Grasp The Obvious

The Economist news magazine belatedly wakes up to reality

Dec 15

The Slow Cousin Begins To Grasp The Obvious

Dec 15

Wither Reading?

As fewer and fewer people read for pleasure and as literacy rates continue to decline, is there any future for the printed word outside of…

Dec 14

Wither Reading?

Dec 14

Biden And The Bomb

How a well-meaning but profoundly inadequate man may have guaranteed thermonuclear devastation

Dec 13

Biden And The Bomb

Dec 13

What Happens When The Money Runs Out?

How democracy leads to financial ruin

Dec 7

What Happens When The Money Runs Out?

Dec 7

What Is The Future Of Special Forces?

How the rapidly changing nature of battle is shrinking operational space

Dec 6

What Is The Future Of Special Forces?

Dec 6

What Makes Us Human?

Why it’ s not language or opposable thumbs or tool-making that sets us apart from all other life on Earth

Dec 4

What Makes Us Human?

Dec 4

Allan Milne Lees

Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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