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
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
What is Britain getting into in Yemen?
We have seen too many disastrous interventions to be confident now
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Satire, sci-fi and a sting in the tale
It’s time for our annual guide to the best new fiction of the year
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
The conspiracy turn
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive