Three minutes by way of update on what I'm up to, above all to say that I'll soon be setting up a new podcast, The Contradictions. And also to encourage people to get in touch by email.

John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski joined me for a conversation based on their book, The Watchdogs Didn't Bark, published by Skyhorse. It comes with advance praise from John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer imprisoned after acknowledging the agency's torture programme, and from the documentary...

An account of a relatively recent experience of the Amazonian psychedelic/entheogen/ecodelic ayahuasca, also known in Colombia as yagé. In this podcast, I provide a basic introduction to what ayahuasca is, for those to whom it's new; I try my best to recount the visions it brought to me; to make...