Sunday, 28 January 2018

Genealogy of the Divisive Tyrant

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It’s been week of the unaccountable autocrats. I gave my second lecture as Gresham Visiting Professor in Classics, on Sappho, viewable ...
Sunday, 7 January 2018

The One Circumstance where Prison really is Necessary

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The vacation meant that I finally had time to catch up on the Prison Reform Trust’s admirable   Bromley Briefings Prison Factfile  for Au...
Friday, 29 December 2017

Five Ancient Greek Rings for the 5th Day of Christmas

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The Five Gold Rings of the Fifth Day of Christmas were originally Jesuit ‘code’ for the Pentateuch, the first five Old Testament books. Bu...
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Sunday, 10 December 2017

New Wave Anti-Democrats, Aristotle, and Winter Snow

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The first snow of winter falls as I hear evasive politicians talk specious rubbish about sovereignty and referenda on the Andrew Marr Sh...
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Sunday, 26 November 2017

An Epic Week, in Several Senses

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    An epic week. Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule in Zimbabwe ended, an event headlined in NewsDay Zimbabwe as ‘Epic Fall of a Dictator’. ...
Friday, 17 November 2017

Manspreading Modern & Ancient

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I’ve been on a lot planes lately, and so am unusually sensitive to manspreading at the moment. This week I spoke at Policy Exchange, a W...
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Friday, 10 November 2017

Week of the Unaccountable Oligarchs

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A week where the full de-democratisation of Higher Education governance came sharply into focus for me after I watched the brilliant movie...