Richard Leonard
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
What Labour owes to Scotland
Can Keir Starmer succeed without the land of Keir Hardie?
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
