Mary Beard
Mary Beard is wrong about Cambridge
The university prefers box-ticking mediocrity to excellence
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
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)