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
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
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The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
