Sunday, 20 November 2016

Why Greek Tragedy and Christianity Don't Mix

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I’m pleased that a review I had almost forgotten writing is featured as one of the ‘free-on-line’ essays in the current edition of the...
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Sunday, 13 November 2016

Liberty Headgear Ancient and Modern

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Happy 13 th (Ides) of November, or Feroniae , the 'freedom festival' when Romans celebrated the central Italian goddess Feronia...
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Saturday, 5 November 2016

Brexit & the Gunpowder Plot: Very British Cock-Ups

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"Anyone got an umbrella?" Today is the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot by which some English Catholics planned to blow up ...
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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...