Georgy Kantor
Georgy Kantor is Associate Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford.
The layers of ancient Rome
Emperors existed at the intersection of many seeming incompatibilities
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell