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
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
