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
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Humza Yousaf, global citizen
Britain needs one, and only one, foreign policy
