Alex Story
Alex Story is a senior manager at a city brokerage, where he works closely with hedge funds and other financial institutions. He represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games and won the Boat Race for Cambridge on two occasions. His team still holds the course record. @alexpstory
Dr. WHO’s new assistant
The WHO is increasingly interested in Melinda’s view of the world
How Gen Z became Gen Me
How the dominance of social media and mobile technology is making today’s teenagers less empathetic and more narcissistic
We are all Maoists now
For many of the West’s leaders, the Beijing model of enlightened autocracy is looking increasingly appealing
The politics of biology and its share price
Can talent quota restrictions based on biology really deliver increased profits, productivity and gain?
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Socialism with Starmerite characteristics
The coming-out party of the Labour moderates had distinctly totalitarian vibes
Europe at the crossroads
The EU elections could see the populist right make significant gains
Losing the battle, losing the war
The most pernicious effect of aligning art with political activism is that the distinction between the two is lost
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
Just show me the money
A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability