A coup d’état, as originally defined, is a coup inflicted by the state on the people. This makes COVID-19 a coup d’état, says Dr James Alexander. Modern politics could be considered death by a thousand coups.
Can England be saved? asks the political science professor James Alexander. Yes, but only by recovering the Greek, Roman, Hebrew and German roots of Englishness.
Politics professor James Alexander has written a short history of the global elites for the Daily Sceptic. He believes the new elite – the Davos elite – are even more sure of their right to rule than the old elites.
Politics professor James Alexander says the intellectuals we need to understand our collapsing civilisation are not scientists, philosophers or psychologists, but literary critics.
What John Morley wrote over 100 years ago about Westminster is still true: "Most mistakes in politics arise from flat and invincible disregard of the plain maxim that it is possible for the same thing to be and not to be."
Dr James Alexander, a politics professor, has diagnosed the main cause of our current malaise: acceleration anxiety. No longer relating to eternal things, we are anxious only to reach the future as fast as possible.
Professor James Alexander does his best to work out what a Calvinist Scottish KC meant when she denounced Boris’s Governemnt for not engaging in 'Hegelian decision-making' and concludes it was just highfalutin nonsense.
According to Dr James Alexander, Boris's failure to resist the pressure to lockdown stemmed from his adherence to J.S. Mill's 'harm principle'. As Maurice Cowling pointed out, it is a hopeless bulwark against tyranny.
Politics Professor James Alexander identifies a single line in Patrick Vallance's diaries that reveals the twisted logic behind the lockdown policy.
Navigating your way through the Israel-Palestine conflict is very, very hard, says Prof James Alexander. The important thing is to retain a sense of proportion.
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