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.
According to a new political science article highlighted in the Guardian, "Misinformation and radical-Right populism must henceforth be understood as inextricable". Apparently, everyone else always only tells the truth.
AI is a demonic force, promising power and dominion while lying to us and leading us astray, says James Alexander. It's a serpent, Babel and Antichrist all rolled into one, beyond our understanding and control.
"King's was not queer, completely, and Cambridge elsewhere was certainly not as queer as King's." Prof James Alexander reviews Simon Goldhill's Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History.
James Alexander reflects on celebrity bloodlines through the unlikely union of Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell, whose surrogate-born child links the legacies of Oliver Twist and Caligula!
Can the death spiral of the United Kingdom be reversed? If it can then Jon Moynihan is the man with the plan, says Prof James Alexander as he reviews Volume II of Return to Growth: How to Fix the UK Economy.
