Never mind smartphones: surely it was the novel that invented mental health problems, suggests Prof James Alexander, as he pays tribute to the theorist of the form, David Lodge, who died on January 1st.
Jordan Peterson should make his mind up about Christianity, critics say. Prof James Alexander disagrees: he's a profound Jungian explorer who wants to help a secularised world see why Christianity still matters.
The Labour party suffers from a psychosis of not having any ideas of its own from later then 1890. The Conservative Party psychosis is the compulsion to 'dish the Whigs'. That's English politics, says Prof James Alexander.
The Guardian has been indulging in climate zigzaggeration of late, says Prof James Alexander. Such a zigzagging whirlwind of alarmist exaggeration deserves to be shared more widely, if only to ward off the unwary.
Whether the "black hole" Rachel Reeves claims to have identified was £22 billion or £40 billion, it pales into insignificance next to the billions we spunked up against the wall to "manage" the pandemic.
Politics professor James Alexander has compiled a compendium of amusing laws – Murphy's Law, Parkinson's Law and Cole's Law (thinly sliced cabbage) – to give you a break from making polite conversation with your relatives.
The word of the year is "Manifest", says the Cambridge Dictionary. What does it mean? Here's an example, says Prof James Alexander: public health busybodies were 'manifesting' when they confected the Covid 'pandemic'.
Politics professor James Alexander has finally got round to reading part one of Baroness Hallett's report. It's a dull pudding, he says, but does contain a few raisins.
Dominic Cummings recently held forth on the "deep state" at a meeting in Oxford. Politics professor James Alexander thinks he is half-right – which is more right than nearly all his critics.
Carol Cadwalladr's latest 'analysis' of what she calls the 'broligarchy' is a feverish mishmash of Trump Derangement Syndrome, cod feminism and Delingpole-esque levels of conspiracy theory gobbledegook, says James Alexander
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