Cyril Mango
Cyril Mango: A titan of Byzantine studies
The celebrated Byzantinist Cyril Mango died earlier this month; his insight will be keenly missed by enthusiasts of Byzantine studies
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Grooming gangs at the end of history
Sexual abuse can upend all of our convenient narratives
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Don’t exploit Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Her legal triumph should be the start and not the end of the reckoning
