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
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump