Ancient Rome
Murder, incest — a limping collapse
Inquests aimed at cooling tempers became trials of strength, fanning the flames of partisan politics
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
They, Claudius
It is folly to project modish contemporary norms backwards
The layers of ancient Rome
Emperors existed at the intersection of many seeming incompatibilities
Populists: doing us all a favour
Don’t sneer at those who challenge the vested interests of the elite
Warfare in the classical world
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the nature of warfare in Ancient Greece and Rome
Nero: zero or hero?
Despite everything we thought we knew, Nero may just possibly be regarded as a half-decent emperor
Et tu? The grim fate of the usual suspects
Peter Stothard’s depiction of the demise of Caesar emphasises the humanity of the emperor’s killer
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.