Ali Miraj
Ali Miraj is a political columnist for TheArticle and regularly appears on Sky News and talkRADIO. He founded the Contrarian Prize to recognise the independence, courage and sacrifice of British public figures whose ideas challenge the status quo. He is also a House music DJ and has performed at leading venues around the world. By day he works in the City as an infrastructure financier.
The beat will go on
The coronavirus pandemic has decimated the nightclub industry, but will the shifting landscape sow the seeds for an entirely new era of clubbing?
In a woke world, be a Contrarian
The Contrarian Prize celebrates British public figures that have the chutzpah to challenge the status quo
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future