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Harry MountThe Spectator |
Mirabile dictu, as we Latin lovers like to say. In other words, wonderful news! Attractive women have fallen for ancient Rome – and for classicists....
Harry Mount has narrated this article for you to listen to. Over the heather the wet wind blows, I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose. The...
Keir Starmer is drawing up his battle-lines for the next election. First, he came for the public schools, pledging to whack VAT on school fees. Now...
It’s the most beautiful restaurant in London – and the oldest. Built in 1573, Middle Temple Hall is celebrating its 450th anniversary. It’s...
It’s amazing how quickly you become ancient history. Thirty years after I left Oxford, my old college, Magdalen – alma mater of Oscar Wilde,...
I recently moved house and got rid of dozens of school and university books, nearly 30 years after leaving Oxford. What a vandal I was! I’d...
According to legend, Vergil declared of himself ‘Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces.’ (‘Mantua...
The world divides into two groups. Those who liked school and those who didn’t. Sir Nicholas Coleridge, the next Provost of Eton, is firmly in the...
Infamy! Infamy! That was my response to the TikTok trend about ancient Rome. Women asked their partners how often they thought about the Roman Empire....
Why do men think about the Roman Empire so much? That’s the subject of a new social media trend, where women ask their partners how often they think...