Blog - The Modern Hermit

Ceuta: Up to 60,000 Crossings Feed the Far Right’s FearAugust 2, 2026
Ceuta’s mass border breach exposed weak safeguards, left at least 67 people dead and handed Europe’s far right a ready-made politics of fear, fury and blame.
AI Sceptics, Expert Pride and the Quantum Intelligence DreamAugust 1, 2026
AI is useful, feared and overhyped at once. A fact-led roast of model snobbery, expert pride, quantum dreams and the robots waiting at humanity’s door.
AI Authors on Autopilot and Their Factory of Empty BooksJuly 31, 2026
AI can help writers build better books, but autopilot publishing turns creation into inventory. A roast of agents, profit, voice and synthetic authorship.
AI Can Draft a Text, It Cannot Feel the Burn of Real LoveJuly 30, 2026
AI can help with boundaries, but it cannot replace the risk, courage, and lived feeling needed for love, friendship, human repair, or honest rejection.
Europe Needs One Voice, One Army and One Chain of CommandJuly 26, 2026
Europe has 27 governments, rising defence budgets and no single chain of command. A sharp sense check on unity, sovereignty and Europe’s strategic power.
Six Years, Three Books and the Market’s Love CalculatorJuly 25, 2026
Six years of love and three books face the usual scoreboard, where duration, ratings, downloads and sales are mistaken for meaning, truth and success.
When a President Becomes the Face of the Entire CountryJuly 25, 2026
When leaders turn public office into theatre, the whole country wears the costume. A roast about power, national reputation, rights and responsibility.
The AI Frontier Built Power Before It Built Any DefenceJuly 24, 2026
Frontier AI firms warn about model distillation after millions of suspect exchanges. The real scandal is how cheaply powerful capabilities may spread.
The Odyssey: IMAX Glory Meets the Three-Hour Chair TestJuly 22, 2026
The Odyssey fills IMAX screens and shakes every chair, but can Christopher Nolan’s three-hour spectacle survive beyond its cinema-sized thunder?
Jeongnyeon: A Star Is Born, Then the Story Loses Its NerveJuly 17, 2026
Jeongnyeon stages a magnificent tribute to women’s theatre, then cuts key female and queer threads and rushes towards a finale afraid of its own courage.