Lives of the Ancients
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat