Alex Singleton | Journalist and political commentator

On Telegraph.co.uk, I write about churches and Sunday trading:
I was once taken to a church in London called the Kensington Temple, the sort of church where people either engage in crass, self-indulgent behaviour or are led to visibly express their love for the son of God, depending upon your point of view. We were early [...]

There’s an interesting article in the New York Times today about whether print publishers can successfully make the tradition online. It focuses on IDG, a magazine publisher for which I have freelanced.
The journey beyond print is uncertain and perilous, but the experience of I.D.G., the world’s largest publisher of technology newspapers and magazines, suggests that it [...]

On Telegraph.co.uk, I argue that the Fabian Society could learn from advice given to Jeanie Buller in the film Ferris Beuller’s Day Off:
In the cult 1980s film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, there is a lesson that the Fabian Society would do well to learn. Ferris Bueller’s sister gets herself worked up because her ever-charming brother [...]

On the Telegraph’s Brassneck blog, I argue that the British public’s attitudes towards entrepreneurial failure is bad for the country.

On The Guardian’s Comment is Free site, I argue that the recent award of Fairtrade status to Tate & Lyle sugar undermines the ethos of the movement and leaves a bitter aftertaste.

On Telegraph.co.uk, I’m supportive of how African footballers join foreign clubs, which is good for them and good for their families:
I find that many people are hostile to trade in players because of a wrong-headed belief that somehow upwardly-mobile Africans are the property of the African content.
This argument is also used when talking about African [...]

Over on Telegraph.co.uk, I blog about Peter Mandelson’s rather sound view that cutting taxes on trade tends to raise revenues. Now if only Gordon Brown would apply that understanding more generally to Britain’s tax system…

The Wall Street Journal Europe’s excellent Kyle Wingfield gave a speech this morning in Brussels to International Leaders Summit, organised by Croatia’s Adriatic Institute. He was upbeat on Europe’s tax situation, saying that the trend line for the EU is going in the right direction. There may, he said, be some worrying specifics, for example [...]

It is commonly believed that it is in the French national interest to keep quotas on textiles from China. The idea of French business as sickly and needing constant protection is unfortunate and inaccurate. But it is fuelled by constant demands from French politicians to protect this industry or that, and of course to promote [...]

Europe’s high-end hi-fi industry has long had an excellent reputation. But in the past 30 years, European manufacturers have found it difficult to compete against cheaper products from Asian manufacturers. European manufacturers that have chosen to be “patriotic” and keep production at home have often found themselves going out of business. But Europe’s hi-fi industry [...]

I have a two-page review of Aperture 2, Apple’s all-in-one photography tool, in the new (April) issue of Macworld, the world’s best-selling Mac magazine. I give the software the thumb’s up, concluding:
Before Aperture 2, there was a case for choosing Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom, especially if not using a particularly high-powered machine. Photographers working under both [...]