Alex Glover

Alex Glover is a freelance journalist, formerly of the Critic.

What McSweeney’s stolen phone says about modern Britain

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If there were ever an event to describe our present moment, it would surely be the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s iPhone. The government device was snatched from his hand no more than a mile from the Houses of Parliament last October, though the incident has only recently come to light.  Putting aside, for a moment,

Saboteurs and looters: life in Ukraine’s capital

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Lviv, Ukraine Russian troops have yet to reach the centre of Kiev. Instead, locals have two more immediate concerns: saboteurs and looters.   Photos shoot across messaging groups. One shows a huddle of supposedly Russian agents caught in a metro station, along with an eviscerated teddy bear in which they were hiding rifle cartridges. The