Of course the Covid Inquiry was going to find the government did 'too little, too late' – it's the Official View, after all, says Professor James Alexander. This isn't going to save us from the next lockdown.
There is a rising sense that the UK is in a state of crisis, collapse or incipient civil war. What should be done? Professor James Alexander reviews the answers that have been advanced and proposes a synthesis.
Taylor Swift has produced an album so bad it's making everyone notice how bad the other ones are. It only goes to show, says Prof James Alexander, that no one remains of interest musically once they hit 30.
Ex-Prince Andrew has always been shameless, but now he has been shamed. Professor James Alexander wonders how history will look back on this latest "periodic fit of morality" that has brought down an incautious prince.
From Covid lockdowns to Net Zero, there's nothing noble about the lies we're told, says Professor James Alexander. It's fashionable to blame Plato for the state of modern society, but the charge won't stick.
Are women responsible for wokery? Is cancel culture femininity writ large? That's what Helen Andrews argues, and Professor James Alexander agrees. Women are now in charge and the Sis Code is the law.
Prof James Alexander has had his fill of 'inclusive' politicians who love 'diversity' so much that they must silence all the 'fascists' i.e., people to the Right of Karl Marx who don't love 'diversity' as much as they do.
Sir Niall Ferguson's law says spending more on debt than defence dooms a nation – and COVID-19 showed the UK broke it spectacularly, says James Alexander.
Adam Sisman's new biography of Asa Briggs is an unintentional revelation, says Professor James Alexander. It shows how the feted historian was an overrated time-server who embodied everything wrong with the modern age.
Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
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