Alexander Poots
Alexander Poots is the author of The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland. He tweets at @alexander_poots
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think