Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer and independent scholar whose work has appeared in print and online in the US, UK, Australia and Ireland, and who writes the regular ‘Strange Statesmen’ column in Fortean Times magazine, detailing the lives and misdeeds of history’s strangest politicians and military dictators. He is the author of over ten books about various overlapping fields such as history, politics, economics, science, folklore, mythology, medicine, fringe-beliefs and eccentrics. His latest book, ‘Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science’ (Frontline/Pen & Sword) is out now, and demonstrates how the political abuse of science in historic totalitarian dictatorships is playing out anew again today in the modern West.
Recent Russian parliamentary sessions devoted to ‘combatting Satan’ are really just disguised exercises in smearing political opponents and Ukrainians as agents of irredeemable supernatural evil.
Steven TuckerJune 18, 2025
A new novel (and movie) about Vladimir Putin’s chief spin-doctor explain how the true battle between Ukraine and Russia is not one of warring armies, but of competing narratives
Steven TuckerMarch 4, 2025
Japan’s military is forbidden by law from sending its troops to fight abroad; so why not send fictional 2D ones instead?
Steven TuckerApril 3, 2024
The Kremlin is busily deploying a new weapon to boost their troops’ flagging morale: counterfeit miracles of Christ, Mary and the Saints.
Steven TuckerMarch 13, 2024
In post-war Italy, the fantasy epics of JRR Tolkien became required reading for the post-fascist right; but does that really mean Hobbits were all Hitlerites?
Steven TuckerJanuary 16, 2024
The new ‘Chinese Savior’ genre of Beijing-backed TV drama is designed to enslave rather than save Africans
Steven TuckerJanuary 10, 2024
When ideology is placed before truth in science, the laws of nature themselves can become its greatest victims.
Steven TuckerNovember 16, 2023
Praying to God for victory in warfare is all very well – but what if your troops just don’t believe in it?
Steven TuckerOctober 30, 2023
Some spiritual interpretations of atomic warfare are perfectly valid – others are positively radioactive
Steven TuckerAugust 23, 2023
Recent rumors of secret Russian underwater operations across Scandinavia have their (sonar) echoes in similar events from the 1980s.
Steven TuckerAugust 21, 2023