Mary Beard
A vivid chronicle of chroniclers
Richard Cohen’s history of histories is a gargantuan achievement
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
