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. He tweets at @AdamsArtist
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
Hidden London
Hidden London’s evocative photos of dereliction will fascinate commuters and tourists alike
Banksy and the triumph of banality
How the shallow culture warrior hoodwinked a generation
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
Most Read
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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
