Ancient and modern

Cicero’s advice for defeated politicians (Alastair Campbell, take note)

16 May 2015 9:00 am

The great Robert Harris has defended the pollsters who got the elections so wrong by quoting Cicero on the electorate’s…

Cicero’s advice for election-losers

14 May 2015 1:00 pm

The great Robert Harris has defended the pollsters who got the elections so wrong by quoting Cicero on the electorate’s…

Athenians didn’t need coalition negotiations. We should learn from them

9 May 2015 9:00 am

Whatever the result of the election, it has become clearer by the day that our ‘democracy’ is run by politicians…

Coalitions of the willing

7 May 2015 1:00 pm

Whatever the result of the election, it has become clearer by the day that our ‘democracy’ is run by politicians…

The ‘start-up cities’ of Ancient Greece

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Honduras wants to establish start-up cities to experiment with alternative economic, regulatory, and legal systems. Could this concept help stop…

Start-up culture in Ancient Greece

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

Honduras wants to establish start-up cities to experiment with alternative economic, regulatory, and legal systems. Could this concept help stop…

Plutarch and Aristotle vs Lynton Crosby

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Attack Ed Miliband and sing up the long-term economic plan: that is the now obviously useless scheme devised by the…

Plutarch and Aristotle vs Lynton Crosby

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

Attack Ed Miliband and sing up the long-term economic plan: that is the now obviously useless scheme devised by the…

Demosthenes vs Michael Fallon

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon’s claim that Ed Miliband, having practised on his brother, would also stab his…

Demosthenes vs Michael Fallon

16 April 2015 1:00 pm

Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon’s claim that Ed Miliband, having practised on his brother, would also stab his…

How to vote like Hercules

11 April 2015 9:00 am

To judge from elections, the purpose of politics is to win power by promising to make people better off. Plato,…

Voting for heroes

9 April 2015 1:00 pm

To judge from elections, the purpose of politics is to win power by promising to make people better off. Plato,…

The fall of the Roman republic and the rise of Alex Salmond

4 April 2015 8:00 am

Alex Salmond, the ex-first minister who proved incapable of making Scotland independent, has assured the world that he and his…

Caesar, Pompey and the SNP

2 April 2015 2:00 pm

Alex Salmond, the ex-first minister who proved incapable of making Scotland independent, has assured the world that he and his…

When Rome’s 99 per cent stood up

28 March 2015 9:00 am

In the UK the richest 1 per cent — 300,000 — of the working population control 23 per cent of…

Rome’s 99 per cent

26 March 2015 3:00 pm

In the UK the richest 1 per cent — 300,000 — of the working population control 23 per cent of…

Allah, Zeus and the Church of England

21 March 2015 9:00 am

A ‘prominent liberal cleric’ in London has held an Islamic prayer service in his church, St John’s Waterloo. ‘We all…

Allah, Zeus and the Church of England

19 March 2015 3:00 pm

A ‘prominent liberal cleric’ in London has held an Islamic prayer service in his church, St John’s Waterloo. ‘We all…

The Green party isn’t nearly tough enough on Ancient Greece

14 March 2015 9:00 am

The Green party’s manifesto appears to make saving the planet only a small element in its otherwise painfully unoriginal agenda.…

Greeks vs Greens

12 March 2015 3:00 pm

The Green party’s manifesto appears to make saving the planet only a small element in its otherwise painfully unoriginal agenda.…

Cicero’s advice for Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw

7 March 2015 9:00 am

In responding as they did to the Daily Telegraph ‘sting’, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind may well have done…

Hyperides vs Jack Straw

5 March 2015 3:00 pm

In responding as they did to the Daily Telegraph ‘sting’, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind may well have done…

Today’s TV debates are pointless – here’s the real thing

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Ancients would have been astonished that parties never debate against each other in open, public forum except on the telly…

Julius Caesar could teach Isis a thing or two

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Isis disseminates videos of beheaded captives to spread simple terror. Julius Caesar knew all about it. In his diaries of…

What Cicero knew that David Davis doesn't

14 February 2015 9:00 am

The MP David Davis has lamented that the British seem to prefer laws that protect their security rather than guard…