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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power