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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning