In the brave new world of AI, does anyone truly care about safety, or is it all just an act put on to reassure us while a monster is being created behind the curtain? Prof James Alexander takes a look and fears the worst.
Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher derided by Roger Scruton as one of the "fools, frauds and firebrands" of the New Left, has died. Prof James Alexander wonders what his fans saw in his interminable gobbledegook.
Biden abolished serifs in US government fonts to improve 'accessibility'; Trump brought them back to ‘banish DEI’. Prof James Alexander explores the delicate politics of typefaces and the emergence of the Comic Sans state.
'Islamophobia' is a lazy label, says James Alexander. The real problem is Islam's push for divinely sanctioned power meeting a muddled liberal West that cannot decide whether to push back or roll over.
Intellectuals love the Left because it's all bright ideas, "what if?" thinking and bold abstractions, says James Alexander. No wonder the Right struggles to grab their attention.
You may have heard of Brandolini's law: that refuting bullshit is always much harder than producing it. But this, says Prof James Alexander, fails to reckon with the industrial scale bullshit churned out by the government.
Kemi Badenoch is 'controlled opposition'. So are Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe. These days, everyone is accused of betraying the purity of the cause. Perhaps, suggests Prof James Alexander, we are all controlled opposition.
Who was William Shakespeare? Hot on the heels of the academic who claimed he was a black woman comes the claim he was an Arabic-speaking Indian. Prof James Alexander casts a sceptical eye over the 'Sheikhspeare' theory.
We've been pronouncing it all wrong, says Professor James Alexander. Its Hope Not – Hate! With the stress on hate. And it's full of Auntiefascists, of the Wodehousian Agatha variety.
Amid the Bafta Tourette's furore, Professor James Alexander wonders if it's really helpful to keep referring to forbidden words using their initials, as that hardly leads us to forget about them.
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