Latin
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The disorder of succession
The war against Catholic traditionalists has done terrible damage to the Church
Et tu, Labour?
The betrayal of language learning
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Double dutch
Latin nomenclature can be useful
Classic mistake
Is Latin a dead language?
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit
A classicist in No 10: Boris and his worldview
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets