Johnny Leavesley
December 2020: Letters to the Editor
In praise of lockdown
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
Live and let live
Labour must resist the urge to kick field sports
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
