Mary Beard: “Learning to think should be destabilising”
The historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”.
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How AE Stallings joined Oxford’s professor of poetry canon
The playful, unpredictable poet knows she is an outsider entering a male-dominated corpus.
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Latin and Greek are not just for the elite
Studying classics has many values, not least helping you spot when charlatan politicians cover their deficiencies with Cicero quotes.
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The meaning of Taxi Driver
Impressions on re-watching Martin Scorsese’s classic 1976 film.
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Boris Johnson’s claim that the Roman empire fell due to “uncontrolled immigration” is wrong – and dangerous
The PM is selling a version of history that doesn’t exist, a world where the West equals good and immigrants…
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It’s time to admit that Pulp Fiction is a bad film
It’s time we recognised that Quentin Tarantino’s much-lauded movie is about nothing, says nothing and makes you feel nothing.
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