Sunday, 30 October 2016

A Classical Cure for Burn-Out in Spain

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Unimpressed Persephone on Vase in Madrid Feeling end-tetherish from anxiety attacks after a challenging 2016 so far, I nearly didn’t g...
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Sunday, 23 October 2016

Greek Roles of the 'Greatest Woman Actor of all Time'

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Bernhardt as Hamlet Watch out for the hype as former Labour MP Glenda Jackson kicks off her Lear  at the Old Vic on Tuesday. It is gr...
Sunday, 16 October 2016

AQA and the Slow Death of People's Classics

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The decision this week announced by AQA (Assessment & Qualifications Alliance) to stop offering Classical Civilisation at AS and A...
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Saturday, 8 October 2016

How to Disembowel Higher Education

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After months deliberately avoiding unnecessary trauma, I have finally read the UK government’s lengthy and repetitive White Paper prop...
Sunday, 2 October 2016

Caliban's Original Language

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Carib Natives through European eyes I write in sympathy with Haiti and Jamaica as they brace themselves for Hurricane Matthew. That an...
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Sunday, 25 September 2016

Ideas of SUCCESS ancient and modern

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BERGER  MUGGERIDGE I find myself stumped as to what to say about ‘ideas of  success in antiquity’  on live radio next Wednesd...
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Thursday, 15 September 2016

Diatribe on Democracy

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It’s ‘International Day of Democracy’ (15 September). So I have just written my forthcoming review for History Today of Paul Cartledge’s ...
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