Ministerial and Other Maternal Allowances Act
Shock: there is a pregnant “person” in the Cabinet
Legislation on maternity leave is now drafted to apply to “a person” not “a woman” who is a mother
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
