Ancient and modern

Ancient and modern

25 February 2023 9:00 am

He who will be obeyed

18 February 2023 9:00 am

Ancient and modern

11 February 2023 9:00 am

Much too much

4 February 2023 9:00 am

Acropolis now

28 January 2023 9:00 am

Time machine

18 January 2023 10:00 pm

The privations of Diogenes

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Nine exceedingly passive ‘activists’ glued themselves to the floor of a Volkswagen factory in Germany and complained about being humiliated,…

Liz Truss and the art of rhetoric

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Liz Truss was spot-on in arguing that the only way in which a state can flourish is by combining low…

How would the Romans have defined Meghan Markle?

15 October 2022 9:00 am

Meghan Markle has been urging women to define themselves as they see fit, with ‘your full, complete, whole-layered, sometimes weird,…

A lesson for Rupa Huq from the ancient Greeks

8 October 2022 9:00 am

The Labour MP Rupa Huq, of Pakistani heritage, has been suspended for suggesting that Kwasi Kwarteng, of Ghanaian heritage, was…

Peta, Lysistrata and the comedy of a sex strike

1 October 2022 9:00 am

The German branch of the ‘green’ organisation Peta (‘People for the ethical treatment of animals’) is demanding that, until men…

The police have learned to treat republican protests the Roman way

24 September 2022 9:00 am

Public dissent, from riots to republicans objecting to homage to the Queen, is dealt with by the police, a force…

Augustus and a lesson in self-publicity

17 September 2022 9:00 am

The death of Her Majesty raises the question of a commemoration of her extraordinary years of service. Augustus ruled the…

Does Cincinnatus have anything in common with Boris?

10 September 2022 9:00 am

On retiring from office, Boris Johnson described himself as a sort of Cincinnatus, returning to his plough. This famous story…

The Roman roots of Tony Blair’s approach to education

3 September 2022 9:00 am

Sir Tony Blair’s Tone-deaf suggestion that Stem subjects should dominate the curriculum of all schools would paradoxically take education back…

How the ancients treated gout

27 August 2022 9:00 am

Medical problems come and go in the media, and at the moment the flavour of the month appears to be…

What Truss and Sunak could learn from Cicero

20 August 2022 9:00 am

As Miss Truss and Mr Sunak spray policies around on a range of topics which they hope will appeal to…