Many level-headed people are concerned at how the freedom of speech is being suppressed and undermined by the no-platforming movement at British universities. St Chad's College, Durham has become the latest institution to stifle publicly the freedom of expression and punish those who question the...
I am aware of recent accusations made against me by student activists claiming that I hold Far-Right, anti-semitic and Islamophobic views. I wish to rebut these libellous accusations which are absurd, totally unfounded and deeply upsetting. None of these commentators have read any of my...
Leonard’s much anticipated book on identity politics is released. The Ideology of Failure dives bravely into the polarised, neurotic and bawdy scrum that is today’s political ideologies. This is a book about the suppression of alternative voices in the context of a clash between politics...
Leonard holds lecture at St Chad’s College, Durham on his fieldwork in the High Arctic focusing on the issue of language and story-telling in one of the most remote communities in the world. This lecture gives an introduction to the people, their language and way...
Leonard publishes his latest collection of essays on ideology and current affairs told through the prism of a travel writer. Travels in Cultural Nihilism is an ideological journey or more of a phenomenological wandering that drifts in and out of the Swedish woods, only to...
Leonard publishes the first part of his research on the anthropology of radio and its curious role in the development of the Faroese language. Faroese is spoken by just 50,000 people and is a linguistic revitalisation success story for this tiny language nearly died out...
Leonard is part of the organising team for the Spitsbergen Retraced expedition. This expedition retraced the first crossing of Spitsbergen carried out in 1923 by a group of Oxford University students. The expedition reproduced exactly the photographs from the first journey to show the impact...
Leonard appears on the Radio 3 programme ‘The Verb’ to discuss his volume of poetry called Arctic Journal. This was part of a series of programmes about poetry that focuses on the North....
In rather unpleasant conditions, Leonard completes the gruelling 71km ski marathon in northern Sweden. It is a long day and by the time Leonard crosses the finishing line it is more or less dark and most of the organisers have gone home....