James Alexander mocks Matthew Parris's recent preachy take on America as lazy London liberalism, offering instead a boots-on-the-ground defence of Trumpism as a necessary, if flawed, political correction.
Politics professor James Alexander says the liberal order that we cherish is incapable of defending itself without a sense of common purpose and that can only be provided by the Christian religion.
It is a sad reflection on our age that the line 'lies, damned lies and statistics' was forgotten, says Prof James Alexander. Good political sense can never be grounded on statistics, but only on history and criticism.
What do Keir Starmer, David Cameron and Boris Johnson have in common? Simple, says Prof James Alexander: once in power, they did the opposite of what their party stands for. Call it the Law of Inverse Policy.
There's something distinctly illiberal about what goes under the name 'Political Science', says Prof James Alexander. Half its practitioners want to control our thoughts and the rest wonder why no one trusts government.
When the state confined whole populations to their homes and bossed us around for years during Covid, where were the philosophers who say they love liberty? Cheering on the authoritarians, says Prof James Alexander.
Those who talk about far Right, hard Right or Right-wing extremism are probably finding a scapegoat for their own systematic internalised fascism, suggests Prof James Alexander.
While Trump dithers on the WHO, Milei goes for the jugular, says Prof James Alexander – calling it the enforcer of history’s biggest social control experiment and slamming lockdowns as a crime against humanity. Good!
With news that Parliament could decamp to a barge on the Thames, Prof James Alexander has a radical suggestion: cut its moorings and send our politicians sailing off to France and see if Trump would like to buy the UK.
USAID is designed to do what the CIA cannot do, with a strong dash of plausible deniability, says Mike Benz. Prof James Alexander takes a deep dive into the Deep State to look at what Elon Musk is unmasking.
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