ALEX HALL asks whether intelligence, and stupidity, are the outcomes of poverty and wealth, and cultural norms

ALEX HALL recommends a considered and clear approach to dismantling apartheid and occupation, were Israel to come to its senses

ALEX HALL is disappointed by a superficial investigation of how consumer choice can be influenced, that ignores the fact that most never have such a choice

ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze

ALEX HALL is frustrated by a book that ducks a clear definition of terrorism and fails to perceive the role of the state in sponsoring it

ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests

ALEX HALL welcomes a book about Gaza that recognises how imperial capitalism defines groups of people by their non-existence

ALEX HALL is unsurprised by the evidence of systemic corruption in the US, and unsettled by the undertone of alarm

ALEX HALL is thrilled by a grassroots history of of Swindon’s stunning industrial and creative past

ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice