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?
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
