Simon Parkin

Parkin is a British journalist, a contributing writer for the New Yorker, and author of the new book The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp

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Inside the World’s Most Extraordinary Prison Camp

The story of the WWII British camps on the Isle of Man where emigrant luminaries were detained and created an extraordinary society

By Simon Parkin

A Nazi U-Boat Tactic Stumped Allied Forces — Until a Retired British Naval Officer Designed a Game to Reveal How It Worked

Using the floor as a giant board, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit, or WATU, would design a game that approximated a wolfpack attack on a convoy in the Atlantic

By Simon Parkin

No, Video Games Don’t Cause Mass Shootings. But The Conversation Shouldn’t End There

As night follows day, as prayers follow thoughts, so talk of video game violence follows a mass shooting, that most inevitable of American news stories. In a speech on Monday, President Trump responded to two...

By Simon Parkin
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