Alexander Adams
Alexander Adams is a British artist, poet, critic and writer. His books Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism and Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History are published by Societas.
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation
Cancel the Turner
It looks like it was made by artists who don’t like art and chosen by judges who don’t either
Painting by numbers
Alexander Adams counts the cost of female artistic success
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it