Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
The feud that felled the Roman Republic
The personal differences between Caesar and Cato mattered
Wonders and warnings from the ancient world
A new history of Byzantium reveals the inner workings of a late antique empire
The Unnatural Herstory Museum
There is no real reason for museums to segregate what was hers and his
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
Fishermen’s tails
Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold
Et tu? The grim fate of the usual suspects
Peter Stothard’s depiction of the demise of Caesar emphasises the humanity of the emperor’s killer
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
