How an early form of tax avoidance influenced architecture in Puglia
Alberobello's Unesco protected trulli were influenced by some medieval creative accounting
September 13, 2023
Sam Leith
Sam Leith is the literary editor of The Spectator, a columnist for the Evening Standard and author of You Talkin’ to Me?
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September 5, 2022
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‘These are financial institutions – not fricking nightclubs’ – Sam Leith on the modern corporate rebrand
Standard Life Aberdeen’s recent rebrand begs a question: what is it with corporate branding departments and the abuse of…
September 6, 2021
In defence of deckle edge books, a ‘blameless quirk of publishing tradition’
You don’t need deckle edge books on your shelves to be glad that they exist. I fancy that Spear’s…
May 18, 2021
Sam Leith: ‘Nothing you hear in middle age will feel to you like it could actually save your life’
Now music – and, perhaps, poetry too – is just everywhere and always. Everything is the sound of now…
November 16, 2020
‘There was not a moment of the day when it was not possible to find The Golden Girls’- An ode to the TV repeat
Telly used to be a sort of cultural texture. Certain shows defined a generation because – even if they…
October 8, 2020
Sam Leith’s lockdown reads
Some of the selections here might have the effect, as well as whiling away the hours, of making us…
August 25, 2020
How Homeland tracked the temper of our times
Its popularity might have dwindled as the show went on, but Homeland was a show that tracked the temper…
July 24, 2020
Why the Star Wars universe is more morally complex than you might think
The huge destruction in the latest Star Wars films shines a light on the moral complexity of the franchise,…
March 25, 2020
Why are we so averse to verse?
Why does poetry seldom, if ever, aspire to be part of a national conversation, asks Sam Leith I’ve been…
February 13, 2020
