Thick as Thebans
Frederic Raphael reveals how Paul Cartledge makes the case for a central historical role for Oedipus’s home town
Public Enemy Number whatever
Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate
A letter to Jesus
Frederic Raphael poses some pertinent questions to the son of God
For the Sisters or the Misters?
Sisters Uncut have more in common with the thuggish police officers from the Clapham Common vigil than they would care to admit
Brexit’s best argument
VDL’s hapless performance must be delighting Brexiteers
Back to the future
Chillaxed to the max with Davey C
Remembering James R. Flynn: scholar and free speech advocate
Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn
Fair Cop’s case in court
It looks like the College of Policing has strayed far from its path; let’s hope the Court of Appeal can set it back in the right direction
Stop this fascist gaslighting
Without white progressives like me to supervise them, ethnic minorities are helpless and easily exploited
The Polish perspective
Why has the history of Poland, what was a large country, an important economy and an interesting polity, been marginalised by historians?
György Ligeti: The 13 Etudes (Hyperion)
If you want to know what a piano can do, you really need to settle down with this absorbing world of sound
Tragedy of the little Darlings
The relationship between J.M. Barrie and the real life Peter Pan was fatherly, friendly and perhaps something else
The men with the megaphone
A new history of movie directors is full of insight, felicitous phrases and subtle put-downs