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
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
