Tista Austin
Tista Austin is a teacher and poet, with a degree in Classics. She tweets at @AustinTista
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Goodbye to the Gorgoneion
Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
How the DVSA is driving young people mad
Driving tests should be much more accessible than they are
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online