Classics
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Should we make Classics history?
Enthusiasm may cause less harm, and prompt more good, than cynicism
Et tu, Labour?
The betrayal of language learning
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.