Ancient and modern

Ancient and modern: Herodotus on 111

3 August 2013 9:00 am

The NHS 111 line, designed to deal with problems that do not count as emergencies, is in financial and organisational…

Plato on the Today programme

27 July 2013 9:00 am

A woman is invited to join the Today programme, and the chatteratae are immediately a-twitter on the subject of female…

Why Egypt needs a Socrates

20 July 2013 9:00 am

No one seems to know, or is willing to say, whether the Egyptian army’s intervention in Egyptian democracy was legal…

Ancient and modern: Socrates on TV election debates

13 July 2013 9:00 am

Lord Hennessy has been arguing that, as a result of TV debates between party leaders prior to elections, ‘the plausible…

Common enemies

6 July 2013 9:00 am

One assumes that it will eventually dawn on those so deeply committed to slaughtering each other in Syria that, whatever…