Alex Singleton is a Telegraph-writing liberal. Based on the newspaper's comment desk, he is part of The Daily Telegraph's leader-writing team. He is also Letters Editor of The Sunday Telegraph and an assistant editor of the daily paper's letters page.
He was once described as "the high priest of globalisation" by Lord Malloch Brown (former Deputy General Secretary of the UN) and, more recently, as a "girly Cameroon" by James Delingpole.
His views on trade justice have been discussed in a Rowan Williams sermon, while his research on microfinance was launched by David Cameron. He has previously written comment and obituaries for The Guardian and reviews and analysis for a variety of newsstand magazines. He is part of the daily PoliticsHome survey of 100 leading opinion formers.
Alex can sometimes be heared promoting liberal views on the television and radio, and has appeared on programmes such as Newsnight, the Today programme and The Moral Maze.
Globalisation
- Latin American banana growers lose out to those with preferential access
Preferential tariffs artificially skew trade to less efficient producers
- Fairtrade sugar leaves a bitter aftertaste
Why Tate & Lyle’s latest announcement is less welcome that it seems
- Why the European Union must reject steel tariffs
President George W. Bush’s steel tariffs cost jobs
- Europe’s taxation going in the right direction
Kyle Wingfield says that Europe’s problem is regulation
- Discussing Burma on the BBC
Sanctions are rarely an effective policy
International development
- People and profits go hand in hand
The case for private sector management of water systems
- World Bank spends aid money producing blog-reading software
The World Bank pours taxpayers’ money down the drain
- The rise of the private sector shows future for the World Bank
Political interference in the World Bank by the likes of Britain’s Hilary Benn is bad news for developing countries
- Cheap imports increase living standards
Cheaper imports are good for an economy – including poor ones
- Big picture economics
Free trade lets poor people eat more
Trade
- Defending the football trade
We should welcome African footballers joining foreign clubs
- The Mandelson Rule: cutting tariffs tends to raise revenues
Cutting taxes on trade raises revenues
- The great unwashed
Politicians’ meddling with the soap market kept pooir people dirty
- Trade defence instruments are like cluster bombing your own people
Peter Mandelson is playing a very dangerous game with European jobs
- America plays poker with the WTO
Can Europe get America to grant market access for online gambling?