Oedipus Rex
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
