Dr James Alexander, a politics professor, analyses the conservative philosophy of Peter Hitchens, whom he thinks is as talented a polemicist as his brother Christopher.
Arguments about how ‘conservative’ the leadership candidates are is pointless since no one really knows what ’conservatism’ means and looking back to Bolingbroke, Burke or Oakeshott doesn’t really help.
Read the second instalment of Dr. James Alexander's short satirical glossary, lexicon, or devil’s dictionary, explanatory of some recently familiar words.
Dr James Alexander, a politics professor at Bilkent University in Turkey, explores the concept of 'settled science' and concludes it’s one of the great oxymorons of our time.
Read Dr. James Alexander's short satirical glossary, lexicon, or devil’s dictionary, explanatory of some recently familiar words.
Dr. James Alexander, a professor of politics, explains the connection between Covid nonsense, climate alarmism and wokery pokery – they‘re all imbued with an ideology that serves the interests of billionaire monopolists.
Dr James Alexander, a politics professor writing in the Daily Sceptic, regrets that the last significant image he has of the Queen was her sitting alone at Prince Philip’s funeral in a mask. It should never have happened.
As it becomes increasingly obvious the lockdown policy was a colossal error, those responsible are reacting in two ways: claiming they always knew it was a mistake or doubling down.
Dr James Alexander has ventured into a minefield for the Daily Sceptic and tried to tiptoe through the bizarre logic than underpins the trans movement.
The philosopher Raymond Guess has come up with a useful term to describe the moral blackmail implicit in Covid, climate change and woke hysteria: the Argumentum Hystericum.
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