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
Young man — there’s a place you can go …
Everything changes in the end and not always for the better
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
Most Read
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
