Alex Glover
Alex Glover works at The Critic
Murder on the Dancefloor?
Government plans to send undercover police into nightclubs are absurd and destructive
Over the top with Boris
The prime minister is trying to portray the Covid pandemic as a war. It isn’t one
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history