Reflecting on the deaths, on the same day, of Yahya Sinwar and Liam Payne, Prof James Alexander asks what gives a death dignity. Even the death of a despicable man like Sinwar can have dignity on its own terms, he argues.
Politics professor James Alexander reviews Return to Growth by Jon Moynihan and finds its argument unanswerable. If we don’t cut taxes, slash red tape and reduce the size of the state, Britain is heading for bankruptcy.
The rise of the digital world has led to a new form of economic order, technofeudalism, in which "cloud capitalists" like Amazon and Google dominate and take their cut, says Yanis Varoufakis. Prof James Alexander agrees.
"Who’s in, who's out?" asks Shakespeare. At the Spectator, Michael Gove is in and Fraser Nelson is out. Both say the magazine should prize style over viewpoint. But is this really right, asks Prof James Alexander.
Have we "lurched to the Right" or "gone down the rabbit hole"? Mainstream media is full of unflattering descriptions of dissent from Establishment orthodoxy, says Prof James Alexander, and they're rarely helpful.
The botanical brigade's bid to erase 'caffra' from plant names exposes the absurdity of trying to decolonise language, says Dr James Alexander.
What's Keir Starmer's greatest achievement to date? Well, it's not exactly a crowded field, says Prof James Alexander, but coining the phrase "Heineken phrase" would get his vote. Probably.
Politics professor James Alexander reviews two recent philosophical attacks on political lying and finds, funnily enough, that it's only lies by Right-wing politicians they object to.
Are we are all Whigs now, asks Prof James Alexander. "If any historical time looks like ours it is the Whig era of Walpole, when the entire system was tied up in 'establishments' and nets of corruption."
Prof James Alexander takes a look at the online tools and games developed by regime psychologists ostensibly to help identify 'misinformation' but really, he thinks, to train the next generation of Thought Police.
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