Peter Sarris
Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He tweets at @peter_sarris
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
The upside of the bubonic plague
Historian James Belich has no truck with the plague deniers
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism