James Alexander

Beware the 'rule of law', warns Prof James Alexander. Labour's Attorney General Lord Hermer is a proponent of a 'thick' version that opposes 'populism' by taking key decisions out of democratic control.

Whenever politicians call for 'leadership' they invariably mean a political leader who is unconstrained by fiscal prudence when it comes to pursuing a utopian Left-wing goal, whether saving the planet or paying reparations.

A fascist has been elected 47th President of the USA. Or so says the Guardian, which assembled a bunch of Left-wing academics to throw around lazy student insults. It just makes them look dumb, says Prof James Alexander.

Lord Sumption has said that if we are to be free we should do as much as possible by convention, not by law. That's right, says Prof James Alexander. But how does one recover conventions that have been lost or destroyed?

Too many still view American politics through a Left-Right binary, says Prof James Alexander. A better lens is to see that a vote for Harris is a vote for the Court party, while outsider Trump represents the Country.

According to politics professor James Alexander, the dirty little secret of British politics is the leader of the Labour Party can never be a women. If that happened, all hell would break loose.

Reflecting on the deaths, on the same day, of Yahya Sinwar and Liam Payne, Prof James Alexander asks what gives a death dignity. Even the death of a despicable man like Sinwar can have dignity on its own terms, he argues.

Politics professor James Alexander reviews Return to Growth by Jon Moynihan and finds its argument unanswerable. If we don’t cut taxes, slash red tape and reduce the size of the state, Britain is heading for bankruptcy.

The rise of the digital world has led to a new form of economic order, technofeudalism, in which "cloud capitalists" like Amazon and Google dominate and take their cut, says Yanis Varoufakis. Prof James Alexander agrees.

"Who’s in, who's out?" asks Shakespeare. At the Spectator, Michael Gove is in and Fraser Nelson is out. Both say the magazine should prize style over viewpoint. But is this really right, asks Prof James Alexander.

Have we "lurched to the Right" or "gone down the rabbit hole"? Mainstream media is full of unflattering descriptions of dissent from Establishment orthodoxy, says Prof James Alexander, and they're rarely helpful.

The botanical brigade's bid to erase 'caffra' from plant names exposes the absurdity of trying to decolonise language, says Dr James Alexander.