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
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
