Cleo Roberts
Dr Cleo Roberts specialises in South and Southeast Asian art. She is currently working on a book on Indian art.
Indira Gandhi: a gift from the gods?
How India’s first – and only – female prime minister exploited a Hindu goddess
Social media platforms are still stifling debate
Platforms like Instagram and Eventbrite should learn that a belief in biological sex does not amount to “hate”
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Life as a lonely quadrant voter
Who should you vote for if you lean left economically and right culturally?
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Speak loudly, and carry a small stick
The Tory Party under Rishi Sunak has been all bark and no bite