Alexander Starritt

Alexander Starritt (born 1985) is a Scottish-Germans novelist, journalist and entrepreneur. He came to public attention in 2017 with the release of his debut novel The Beast. He was also one of the founding team on the policy platform Apolitical. Quotes Drayton and Mackenzie (2025) The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, free markets and personal self- realisation. Even the Russians and Chinese had hauled down the red flag and realised they'd rather have a nice time than a world revolution. Even the Irish had settled their eight-hundred-year vendetta, simply because no one wanted it any more. Starritt Alexander Drayton and Mackenzie: An ode to the enduring power of male friendship. 2025 Swift Press 2025-07-03 Kindle Edition 579 9781800755277 1800755279 B0DV9Y514C English, p. 46 For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It didn’t have to be. This was a ladder. And yet: he’d come first in the most prestigious course at the most famous university in the world, and he was sitting here in his boxers copying and pasting the item code for ironing boards. It didn’t feel as if he were ascending to greatness. p47 It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things over” “by close of play”. p105 James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there was blatant wastage everywhere. Half the employees barely lifted a finger. They spent days listlessly scheduling meetings or organising the holiday calendar. A company grown fat on oil. For James it was like finding ripe fields of wheat yearning for the scythe. Roland felt like a snitch. p178 James was twenty- seven and never had a boss again. Until that moment, he and Roland had lived as employees, as if in the warm, dark, cosy- fetid hold of a ship. What happened up at the helm was not their concern. p222 James said that in years to come, when the company had swelled to thousands, people would brag about having been on this boat. It would be like saying you were with Mao on the Long March. p334 It was as if they were together in their campaign tent, studying the map and deciding where to deploy their regiments. p445 This was what it must be like when the winners of some shitty trophy in Slovenia qualified for the Champions League and came up against Real Madrid. It was the sheer embarrassment of having taken yourself seriously. p480 External links Category:Living people Category:1985 births Category:Journalists from Scotland Category:Novelists from Scotland Category:Entrepreneurs Category:University of Oxford alumni