Paul Stephenson
Paul Stephenson is the author of "The Serpent Column: a cultural biography," which explores the history of a bronze sculpture through 2,500 years. His next book is "New Rome. The Roman Empire in the East", forthcoming with Profile and Harvard University Press.
Heirs to Byzantium
Unlike Putin, the British have never really understood the central importance of Constantinople to European history
The Fate of Hagia Sophia
Will Hagia Sophia’s Christian heritage survive under President Erdoğan’s ‘neo-Ottoman’ vision?
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
Why Labour doesn’t understand the gender wars
Keir Starmer’s confusion on gender is the result of years of cowardice
The British Holocaust cover-up that wasn’t
A fanciful and convoluted conspiracy theory has blighted the reputation of the Channel Islands
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Pissed Ofcom
An affront to the freedom of the press to do whatever it likes
Dismantle the HR state
Opaque standards committees are putting British public life in a stranglehold
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism