The Edithorial

John Hume, a disgrace to his species The older I get, the more I am moved by the plight of other fauna on the planet in the face of hu...

23 August is the annual International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. UNESCO chose the date because it ma...

August 13 th is the 28 th International Left-Handers’ Day.  The usual journalistic response is to point out the disproportionate number ...

It’s been Phoenician-Carthaginian Week for me, culminating last night at the Proms in a BBC debate on ancient mariners with archa...

Devoted Current &Would-be Teachers of Class. Civ. at Cambridge 7 July The last three weeks consisted of serious and exciting work ...

Not Big Enough for modern teenagers I escaped to Rome and met a daughter backpacking with two friends. Two out of three expressed surp...

Bacchae : Mum/Daughter-Free Tragedy Some inspiring developments this week, but I’m feeling too dyspeptic to do them justice and am pos...