As something of a polo player, I have had a long-term interest in horses. But this piece even pre-dates my riding career. Below is the reference to my reworked M.Phil thesis from the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Martin Maiden. Somehow, after 15 years...
Published in the Country Squire Magazine Mr Ambiguous-de-Spode sat in the Fellows’ Common Room at All Souls College or The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford for short, browsing the photographs of the Country Life...
Article published in Country Squire Magazine Vaporised words linger in arid self-interrogation. There is an extended silence, a short sonata of raised eyebrows and then a meaningful grin. Ibbi, an Inuit hunter, sits in my freezing hut, patting his firm bulk full of seal meat. Implausible...
Latest research on how Russian Orthodox Christians frame their understanding of semiotic ideologies of worship is published in the Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Association (2020), 45 (3): 35-48....
Statement: Disassociation from Arktos Media I have published two books with Arktos Media. Both of these books (The Ideology of Failure is a second edition of Travels in Cultural Nihilism) deal primarily with what I call the ‘ideology of cultural nihilism’ and have a particular focus on...
Reviewed by Andrew Moody. Published in Country Squire Magazine The Ideology of Failure When researching Stephen Pax Leonard, the author of the 2018 Conservative polemic The Ideology of Failure: How Europe Bought Into Ideas That Will Weaken and Divide It, I couldn’t find any reviews of...
Latest research on Icelandic and semiotic ideologies is published: 2020. 'A semiotic approach to language ideologies: Modelling the changing Icelandic languagescape'. Sign Systems Studies 48 (2/4): 271-96. ...
Article published in Country Squire Magazine Time to cancel the ‘cancel culture’ The Government’s white paper on the freedom of speech crisis at British universities is to be welcomed as a step in the right direction. But, it does not go nearly far enough. Fining universities that...
Latest research on Colombian 'kidnap radio' and the sound of God is published: 2020. 'Doing things with voices: Colombian 'kidnap radio' and the sound of God. Social anthropology/anthropologie sociale 28 (1): 914-28....
Latest research addressing the question of the relationship between speech and experience has been published: Leonard, S. P. 2021. 'Experiencing Speech: Insights from indigenous ideologies of language'. International Journal of Language Studies 15 (1): 1-26. ...