Sunday, 10 September 2017

A Serious Response to Rees-Mogg's views on Abortion

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The Etonian MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who claims to have become a Tory at the age of five, and has burdened his own sixth child with the name ‘S...
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Sunday, 27 August 2017

Rhinoceros Persecution Ancient & Modern

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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...
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Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Spartacus in Haiti and Lancashire

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23 August is the annual International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. UNESCO chose the date because it ma...
Sunday, 13 August 2017

Some Classical and presidential Left-Handers

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August 13 th is the 28 th International Left-Handers’ Day.  The usual journalistic response is to point out the disproportionate number ...
Saturday, 29 July 2017

How Virgil Framed Dido

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It’s been Phoenician-Carthaginian Week for me, culminating last night at the Proms in a BBC debate on ancient mariners with archa...
Sunday, 23 July 2017

A Year of Campaigning for Classics Education Begins!

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Devoted Current &Would-be Teachers of Class. Civ. at Cambridge 7 July The last three weeks consisted of serious and exciting work ...
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Sunday, 16 July 2017

Draco of Athens v. the Tolpuddle Martyrs

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