Skip to main content
Alex Hall
bund
Book Review / 13 August 2026
13 August 2026

ALEX HALL welcomes a history of the Bund, and its emphatic demand for working-class solidarity across racial and ethnic difference

trans activism
Books / 5 August 2026
5 August 2026

ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries

gg
Books / 9 July 2026
9 July 2026

ALEX HALL treasures a meticulous examination of international institutions that have given in to Israeli pressure during their still unfolding campaign of genocide

explosive
Book Review / 17 June 2026
17 June 2026

ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation

chasing
Books / 28 May 2026
28 May 2026

ALEX HALL welcomes the memoir of a prominent British academic of Ugandan/Zimbabwean heritage

RAW DEAL: Over-age destroyers turned over to Britain, at a Canadian port in September 1940 in exchange for naval and air bases. The UK made its final Lend-Lease repayment to the US in December 2006 - the total loan was for £2.2 billion (equivalent to £45.74 billion in 2025)  / Pic: National Archives and Records Administration/CC
Books / 26 April 2026
26 April 2026

The allies of the US, like our own country, end up dominated and cowed, concludes ALEX HALL

hain
Book Review / 13 February 2026
13 February 2026

Given the epidemic of corruption in post colonial states, ALEX HALL is disappointed by a failure to analyse the economic architecture that makes it so lucrative

brother gun
Books / 6 February 2026
6 February 2026

ALEX HALL appreciates the history of a famous shoot-out that is sourced from diaries, letters, and newspapers of the time

deadwood
Book Review / 11 January 2026
11 January 2026

By telling the story of a lawless frontier town from the point of view of the Lakota, Chinese labourers, prostitutes and displaced prospectors, makes for a potted history of capital, suggests ALEX HALL

covers
Round-up / 3 January 2026
3 January 2026

Looking for moral co-ordinates after a tough year for rational political thinking and shared human morality

stupidity
Book Review / 28 November 2025
28 November 2025

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

apartheid to democracy
Books / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025

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