Alec Siantonas
Alec Siantonas is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University, Delhi
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
