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Alex Hall
manipulation
Books / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

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

Then Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) alongside shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer during a press conference in central London, December 6, 2019
Features / 20 October 2025
20 October 2025

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

rethinking
Book Review / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025

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

syria
Books / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025

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

Omar
Books / 29 June 2025
29 June 2025

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

corruption
Book Review / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025

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

swindon
Books / 13 June 2025
13 June 2025

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

Dominique Moisi at the Festival of Economics in Trento, Italy, 2013 / Pic: Niccolo Caranti/CC
Book Review / 25 April 2025
25 April 2025

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

Interview / 9 July 2023
9 July 2023
JOE SOLO tells ALEX HALL about life as a working-class artist, and the meaning of his new anthem These Are My People