Xander West
Xander West is a British writer. He tweets at @XanderHWest
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too