September 24, 2025

Does Trump read Shakespeare? There’s a lot about the President in Hamlet

Terry Eagleton

25.06

Trump’s return to Shakespearean politics He negotiates like a feudal king

Matthew Gasda

23.08

Modern Europe was born on the battlefield The Hundred Years War is our chronicle and crucible

Jonathan Sumption

27.07

What’s wrong with cannibalism? Human disgust can be a powerful moral ally

Giles Fraser

22.09

Why artists sell out Mammon, not the muse, calls the shots

Andrew Doyle

30.03

Boris Johnson is no clown Playing the fool requires art and intelligence

Terry Eagleton

11.03

Prince Harry is a Freudian dream It's hardly surprising that the Royal Family has its own Oedipus complex

Giles Fraser

19.01

The importance of obscenity A century after Ulysses was banned, a strange paradox remains at the heart of vulgarity

Andrew Doyle

04.06

Trump and the rise of the tyrants

Michael Burleigh