An Englishman writes the great Canadian gay historical novel
British novelist Patrick Gale reimagines the life of his great-grandfather, who left his family for Saskatchewan—a place of hardship and sexual liberty
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Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren is Maclean’s National Magazine Award-winning London correspondent. Her second novel, A Better Man, was published by HarperCollins in 2015.
Amid an immigration crisis, Julian Assange asks for asylum
Leah McLaren on how WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s plea for protection in France couldn’t have come at a worse time
Can a party for women, and by women, make it in Britain?
How a ‘crazy idea’ to grease the wheels of social progress has launched the Women’s Equality Party and a rising political star
In Britain, poverty becomes prime-time TV
Dubbed the ‘working-class Hunger Games,’ a controversial new reality show hits at the heart of Britain’s class obsession
The meaning of the meddling Prince Charles
Charles’s lobbying letters defend the toothfish and the badger cull. Do they also put the monarchy at risk?
U.K. election: Sturgeon against the current
Why the outcome of the U.K. election may be in the hands of a surprising new political star from Scotland
What’s cooking in the U.K.? Politics.
For the U.K. Labour and Tory party leaders, the family kitchen is an unfriendly campaign-trail stopping point
How the Folio Prize aims to find the world’s best book
With no ritzy ceremony or celebrity judges, the new Folio Prize is all about finding the world’s best fiction
Jeremy Clarkson and Britain’s most entertaining scandal
If the BBC was trying to set an example by suspending its most famous TV personality, it failed miserably
Wither Westminster: How do you fix a crumbling parliament?
Britain’s parliament building is a mess, and many politicians there wouldn’t have it any other way