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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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
