Johnny Leavesley
Johnny Leavesley is attempting to become a business tycoon from the Midlands. He tweets at @JohnnyLeavesley
Banks, bikes and choppers
Banks should be like activist investors and intervene early rather than pull loans hastily
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Security is important — but you often have to keep a very close eye on the guards
Aromatherapy for chaps
Get as many days of game sport as possible because one never knows when the self-righteous will stop it
Earning your pinstripes
There are times, even in our dressed-down age, when clothes maketh the deal
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)