Classics
Goodbye to the Gorgoneion
Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?
Medusa and toxic femininity
In reply to A Classicist’s response to ‘The Mirror of #MeToo’
Looking back at Medusa
Myths are more malleable than statues
A little too mature
In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does
Latin hero of love-torn teenagers
Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
