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 case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
