Tom Holland

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Kingdoms not of this world

  • 02 April 2009
  • 1 comment

To imagine that Islam can be transformed with a little nudge here and there into a kind of Church of England with hijabs is absurd, writes Tom Holland. For Christians and Muslims worship different gods, and this has a huge influence on the relationship between religion and state, even in the modern world

Golden thread, national myth

  • 18 December 2008
  • 2 comments

Those behind the new Labour revolution are beginning to realise that to discard our heritage is also to betray the origins of many of our liberties. The question is how to interpret the meanings of those liberties for modern political life

Uncomfortable origins

  • 20 November 2008
  • 11 comments

We have had a remarkable response to Tom Holland's essay of 13 October on the Christian roots of European secularism. Here the author responds

Europe's first revolution

  • 09 October 2008
  • 6 comments

The west faces increasing tension with the Muslim world. To plot a course through this turbulent age, Europe must come to terms with what we owe to our Christian past

The Persian Renaissance

  • 19 September 2005

A spectacular exhibition devoted to the glories of the ancient Persian empire has opened at the British Museum. It represents one of the great success stories of ancient history

What Bush can learn from the Romans

  • 25 August 2003

A republic founded on high ideals of liberty becomes a great world power and then drifts into empire. Sounds familiar? It all happened 2,000 years ago

Incomparable ruin

  • 17 June 2002

The Parthenon
Mary Beard Profile Books, 209pp, £15
ISBN 186197292X

A sure fang

  • 19 February 2001

The myths that fed the vampire tradition are all but exhausted. Yet in a world where the living are revived by the organs of the dead, the genre is bound to survive, argues Tom Holland

Sex with sister

  • 18 September 2000

Augusta Leigh: Byron's half-sister
Michael and Melissa Bakewell Chatto & Windus, 438pp, £25
ISBN 0185619754

London crawling

  • 28 February 2000

1700: Scenes from London Life
Maureen Waller Hodder & Stoughton, 350pp, £20
ISBN 0340739665

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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