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
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?