Greek Mythology
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
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
How the Ukraine delusion may end
Biden might entertain peace to cut his losses and boost his election chances
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism
Against the wokewashing of sexual objectification
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
