Conrad Landin

Glasgow

Co-Editor and Arts Editor at New Internationalist

Journalist and PR at Freelance

Co-editor and arts editor @newint. Magazine & newspaper journalist. Book reviewer and occasional art critic. Former industrial correspondent. NUJ.

Articles

Hans Hess and German Expressionism

3 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Conrad Landin

The modern artist, Hans Hess declared in a lecture in 1964, ‘thinks of himself as an independent genius, but he is only a tool in that greater social machinery which owns and controls him’. This observation was typical for an art historian determined – as the art historian Quentin Bell put it – to confront not so much ‘the facts of life’ as ‘the more dangerous facts of class’.
Scottish Labour accused of trying to hide candidate’s link to scandal-hit firm

1 month ago | msn.com | Severin Carrell |Conrad Landin |Libby Brooks

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Scottish Labour accused of trying to hide candidate’s link to scandal-hit firm | Labour

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Severin Carrell |Conrad Landin |Libby Brooks

Labour is facing questions over transparency after it failed to disclose that a byelection candidate worked for a company previously embroiled in a data falsification scandal. The party has not told voters in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse byelection that its candidate, Davy Russell, worked as a consultant to a subsidiary of Mears Group in the neighbouring area of North Lanarkshire.
Scottish Labour accused of trying to hide candidate’s link to scandal-hit firm

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Severin Carrell |Conrad Landin |Libby Brooks

Labour is facing questions over transparency after it failed to disclose that a byelection candidate worked for a company previously embroiled in a data falsification scandal. The party has not told voters in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse byelection that its candidate, Davy Russell, worked as a consultant to a subsidiary of Mears Group in the neighbouring area of North Lanarkshire.
Grayson Perry: ‘I’m not out to solve the world’s problems with a paintbrush’

1 month ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Conrad Landin

Sir Grayson Perry – ‘I’m not out to solve the world’s problems with a paintbrush’ [Richard Ansett for the Wallace Collection]WHEN Shirley Smith woke up in Manchester Square after a mental breakdown, she became convinced she was someone else. Surrounded by the treasures of the Wallace Collection, she claimed them as her rightful inheritance. She was, after all, the Honourable Millicent Wallace.
When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Nicola Shulman |Stephen Glover |James Robins |Conrad Landin

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe here Behind the velvet rope The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess “Do you know who I am?” This question, when spoken to doormen, waiters, maîtres d’, airline staff, traffic wardens, police officers, receptionists, girls with clipboards at the entrance to social events and any other persons with a remit to restrict our freedom of movement, is a sure sign that the speaker has lost their bearings in the cosmic...
The DLR, the ‘Camden clique’, and Keir Starmer’s bumpy road to Downing Street

Mar 27, 2025 | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Conrad Landin

Sir Keir StarmerTHE trouble with popular political books is that most of them miss the point. Get In, to its credit, at least makes a virtue of it – if a rather apologetic one. “Little of what happens in Parliament or to politicians really merits its billing as high drama,” its authors tell us, “[but] the recent history of the Labour Party is a rare exception.” Let’s see.
Canal knowledge: an adventure through the waterways of Venice

Jan 23, 2025 | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Conrad Landin

Andrew Martin, author of The Night in Venice“OF all the cities of the world,” wrote Henry James, Venice “is the easiest to visit without going there”. Yet the alien, performative, and dream-like qualities of this city – an historic republic in its own right – also make it the easiest to be absent within while in residence.
What if... the United States was abolished?

Jan 20, 2025 | newint.org | Conrad Landin

Picture the scene. It’s 2028, and Donald Trump has been re-elected US president. Having abolished term limits and charmed and connived his way to victory again, he is set to become the first US president since Franklin D Roosevelt to serve a third term in office. Except… there is no United States left to govern. Piece by piece, the jigsaw has shrunk to the point that even the District of Colombia has declared independence, and the boundary fence of Trump’s White House now forms the US border.
Spotlight: Evelyn Hollow

Dec 9, 2024 | newint.org | Conrad Landin

When Evelyn Hollow made the transition from radio to television, she knew she would face greater scrutiny – but there was one reaction she didn’t foresee. ‘They always say “oh you don’t look like what I thought you would look like”,’ she explains. ‘I’ve had some interesting responses to that – people thought I’d be blonde, people thought I’d be 50.