Alexander Baker
Alexander Baker is a Research Associate at the Legatum Institute. He previously worked in Parliament for the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, focussing on foreign policy, national resilience, and security legislation.
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?