Cornelia van der Poll
Cornelia van der Poll is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek at Oxford.
Restore Trust
Many members have decided to walk away and leave the National Trust to its fate. They need to come back
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography