Alex Singleton

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 […]

Gordon Brown is a tax addict
Is Ed Balls a bad parent?
Spare us the listening Prime Minister
British oppose green taxes
Hugo Chavez is blinded by ideology
Promoting local shops the wrong way
Britain needs more toll roads
Battle of the pollsters
Restricting the railways
Schools are key to reforming manners

Well done to the Co-op. It has ditched a hateful device called The Mosquito, which emits a high-pitched sound that causes irritation among people under 25. The purpose of the device is to stop youths loitering outside their stores, but it is irritating for the silent majority of young people who lead perfectly law-abiding livings. […]

On Telegraph.co.uk, I write:
The rise in internet-based electioneering has been significant in the United States. On this side of the Pond, there is an argument – made by the likes of Computing - that electioneering over the past few weeks has been surprisingly old-school. Boris Johnson is supposed to be gaff-prone, so why were we not deluged with […]

On The Guardian’s Comment is Free site, I put some arguments in favour of an illegal immigration amnesty:
Boris Johnson’s support for an amnesty on illegal immigrants may not appeal to the party leadership, but he is right to propose the measure. The status quo has driven too many immigrants underground, into the black economy where […]

Over on the Telegraph’s Brassneck blog, I pick up on Shane Greer’s suggestion that David Cameron’s effect is to shift the centre ground of politics to the right: he’s realigning politics, not just his party. I also say that, far from leading Cameroonie thought with their policy review, John Gummer and Zac Goldsmith fundamentally failed […]