Antiquity
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The humanity of Horace
The wisdom of someone who has lived a little is at the heart of the verse of the ancient poet who was adopted as the mascot of the Enlightenment
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave