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
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
