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Articles by Alexander Hay

Alexander Hay
About Alexander Hay
Alexander Hay is a writer and polemicist based online and in print.
Theresa May's pursuit of Brexit - where does it all lead?
Society

Theresa May Brexits English to Death

08/03/2018 Alexander Hay

Theresa May’s Brexit speech was delusional, vapid and debased the English language. Didn’t she do well? (read more)

One of many downbeat rivals to KFC.
Society

Totally Clucked: The 2018 KFC Famine

01/03/2018 Alexander Hay

As KFC is forced to close scores of branches, what does this reveal about our ever-so-slightly dysfunctional society? (read more)

Boris Johnson is represented here by a wax-work. But can we tell the difference?
Society

Boris Johnson – the blonde bomb site returns

22/02/2018 Alexander Hay

It’s perhaps too easy to mock Boris Johnson. And yet he remains an ominous symptom of a society in decline. (read more)

Who needs Web Porn when you've got Hot Swan on Leda action?
Society

Web Porn: The War on W*nk

15/02/2018 Alexander Hay

Plans to restrict Web Porn is more informed by humbug than serious debates, and reflects a deeper social dysfunction. (read more)

Trump gives the 2018 State of the Union address with Vice President Pence and Speaker Ryan in the background.
Society

SOTU 2018: Donald Trump Colonises America

08/02/2018 Alexander Hay

Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech last week revealed many things and (surprise) more than a few echoes of colonialism. (read more)

BBC News? More like BBC Nope.
Society

Blackmail, Sexism, Bias: RIP BBC News

25/01/2018 Alexander Hay

It is time for BBC News to die. It is in a dreadful state, like a horse in the Grand National that’s about to be shot. (read more)

You may like privatisation, but not a lot.
Society

Carillion’s fall – privatisation and magical thinking

18/01/2018 Alexander Hay

In the aftermath of Carillion’s collapse, and its winning of government contracts despite clear profit warnings, where does this leave privatisation? (read more)

Brexit Lemmings, leaping off a patriotic cliff
Society

Year Zero – Brexit and Nihilism

11/01/2018 Alexander Hay

Sometimes we just have to state the obvious. Brexit is a bad idea. It has already split the country and gave voice to all manner of nasty beliefs once thought dead and buried. (read more)

Myrkur
Sound

Sacrilege! Profanity! Err, Isn’t That the Point of Black Metal? Myrkur

20/12/2017 Alexander Hay

Myrkur proves, by dint of sheer talent, that magnificent Black Metal can be made by those there lady women people. (read more)

Society

The Many Uses of Dead Baby Whales

29/11/2017 Alexander Hay

Blue Planet II’s weekly reminder that you are a sh*t (read more)

Ensiferum
Sound

Gloomy Doomy Scandi Metal Mashup (Monolord, Enisferum, Cardinals Folly)

06/11/2017 Alexander Hay

Guts and Gusto win out whilst Grammar Gets Gutted. (read more)

No Funeral/Livid
Sound

Mindkult, No Funeral and Livid (Reviews)

04/09/2017 Alexander Hay

Morbid, Miserable and Doomy as a 1990s first-person Shoot ’em Up. (read more)

With Primeval Force
Sound

Death, Thrash, Horror. No Garlic: With Primeval Force (Vampire)

11/05/2017 Alexander Hay

Vampire’s second album, With Primeval Force, has all the fangs it needs (read more)

The Obsessed, Sacred
Sound

Oozy Bluesy Doom: Sacred (The Obsessed)

12/04/2017 Alexander Hay

Doom metal with passion and refinement – The Obsessed are back after a brief 23-year break (read more)

Buckingham Palace, The Will of the People
Society

Democratic Stitch Ups and the Untouchable Will of the People

01/03/2017 Alexander Hay

Autocracies fail in the long run because the people much prefer to oppress themselves than be oppressed (read more)

Society

Kings Of The Ballot Box – What Democracies & Monarchies Have In Common

22/02/2017 Alexander Hay

2016 was not a good year for democracy. This year could be worse. (read more)

Domkraft, End of Electricity
Sound

The End of Electricity (Domkraft)

01/01/2017 Alexander Hay

Simultaneously doomy and a little dotty, Domkraft freshen the formula with The End of Electricity (read more)

Arkona, Vozrozhdenie
Sound

Clever, Inventive, Versatile… and Dull: Vozrozhdeniye (Arkona)

03/12/2016 Alexander Hay

Accomplished and precise, Arkona’s rework of Vozrozhdeniye nevertheless fails to ignite (read more)

Rudra, Enemy of Duality
Sound

Death (and Rebirth) Metal: Enemy of Duality (Rudra)

23/11/2016 Alexander Hay

Avoiding kitsch and staying extreme, Rudra integrate south Asian influences into metal mayhem (read more)

Sound

Mirroring the Zeitgeist with Doom, Death and Gothic Gloom

10/11/2016 Alexander Hay

Convenience death metal, giant wicker cocks. If politics has gone weird, why shouldn’t music? Review of Gatecreeper and Abysmal Grief albums (read more)

Sound

Swedish Heavy Metal Monday Mashup

07/11/2016 Alexander Hay

HammerFall and Civil War prove there’s more sludgy grind to Sweden than Ikea’s meatballs (read more)

kargeras
Sound

Kargeras Returns From The Land of the Almost Ignored (Root)

28/10/2016 Alexander Hay

Czech dark metal act Root are a band you haven’t heard of, but should have (read more)

suicide platform
Society

Brudging the Issue With the EU Referendum

31/08/2016 Alexander Hay

We keep getting what we deserve and we never ask why. (read more)

Sound

Summer Dies Slowly: August Metal Meltdown

08/08/2016 Alexander Hay

A summer of death, filth, junkie Olympians and the Zika virus needs an appropriate soundtrack. Metal meltdown ahoy. (read more)

devilsfingers
Sound

April Metal (Grimner, Miasmal, The Wolves of Avalon)

15/04/2016 Alexander Hay

The nightmare of history menaces the month’s metal releases (read more)

new metal monthly releases
Sound

Dark, Relentless Glory: Monthly Metal Medley

27/01/2016 Alexander Hay

In the midst of death… Heavy Metal, that most persistent and insidious weed, offers up new releases from Witchcraft, Ghost Witch, Gomorrah and Conan. We review. (read more)

Sound

Only Death is Real! Indiscriminate Biochemical Dispersion Merry Christmas Panama Deathgrind (Abatuar)

19/12/2015 Alexander Hay

Interview with Panamanian deathgrind’s prime mover – Cadaver, the singer/drummer of Abatuar, opines. (read more)

workers by Skeeze
Society

Strive to Shirk, Why Hard Work Doesn’t Work

14/11/2015 Alexander Hay

No wonder governments like to advocate ‘hard work’. The last thing they want is people with minds and lives of their own. Overworked people know their place. (read more)

Sound

‘The sea is its own vast universe’ (AHAB talk about The Boats of the Glen Carrig )

22/10/2015 Alexander Hay

We play the music for ourselves and if people like it, that’s OK – Daniel Droste, AHAB (read more)

science-fiction
Features

TV at its most cynical. The Magician’s Apprentice (Doctor Who)

23/09/2015 Alexander Hay

Audience figures for Saturday night’s mess are the lowest ever for a Who series opener. You’d think they would have got the hint. (read more)

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