Aesop warned the Greeks of the danger in about 520BC; Avianus repeated it for the Romans a century later. William…

The long march though our institutions seems to be gathering pace. The latest targets are the courts and the  judges…

Eating our way to a brave green world

Two cautionary fables for the Libs

Singing the same old tune

Get used to a Muslim-dominated UK polity

On the trashing of the American justice system

Woke Woolworths’ societal change agenda

Who is it?

Laughing in the face of progressive ideology

First manufacturing, now mining and agriculture are targeted for ruin

The ‘monsters’ dug from the cliffs of Lyme Regis did not sit well with the literal reading of Genesis – but many other issues contributed to the famed Victorian crisis of faith

Pain lurks below the surface of these sardonic short stories. Happiness is fleeting, and ‘we carry death within us like a stone within a fruit’, one narrator observes

McCullers’s acclaimed first novel, written when she was 23, drew her into the orbit of several female writers with whom she fell in love – but it was never reciprocated for long

Early Christianity positively welcomed comparisons between Jesus and Socrates, Asclepius, Emperor Vespasian and Apollonius of Tyana, according to Catherine Nixey

The Marxist from Martinique became a rallying figure for anti-colonial movements across the world. But might he have revised his violent message had he lived longer?

It is 1843, the year of the Great Disruption in the Scottish Church, and an impoverished minister is being paid to clear a lonely North Sea island of any remaining inhabitants

Ross Perlin is determined to support the ‘last speakers’ of endangered tongues, such as Seke. But if these speakers really are the last, they are not, in any real sense, speaking

Many competing styles flourished in the interwar years, including functionalism, art deco, neoclassicism, seaside moderne, mock-Mayan and Egyptian revivalism

It’s interesting to see a new production of The Sound of Music is on at the National Theatre (a somewhat…

Yaël Farber’s production of King Lear at the Almeida Theatre is imbued with an undercurrent of tension that feels as…

The Banksy retrospective which has been drawing modest crowds to the basement of Sydney Town Hall in recent weeks is…

Adam, a Speccie reader, asks about the familiar expression ‘face the music’ – meaning to face up to the consequences…

Recently, I got very stoned. I haven’t been that stoned since I was at Woodstock. Or was it the first…