Alex Diggins
Alex Diggins is a journalist and critic. Follow him at @AHABDiggins
Two portraits of troubled art scholars
A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history
Walking the path of the stupidly rich
Serious Money tracks the excesses and indulgences of those with wealth to burn
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
Behind bars, among stars
Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
