Johnny Leavesley
Johnny Leavesley is attempting to become a business tycoon from the Midlands. He tweets at @JohnnyLeavesley
Real social responsibility
Be wary of companies with public sector monkeys and a diversity officer on the board
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
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
