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
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law