"Jeremy Corbyn has to decide whether he is going to be a leader who repairs and strengthens or whether he is going to go down in history as the Labour leader who broke the Labour Party" Labour MP Wes Streeting on the anti-Semitism row "Someone once said that politicians are like nappies - they should be changed frequently - and for the same reason" Comedian Barry Cryer "We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence"
Classicist Mary Beard "I thought, 'at what age is being naked not beautiful any more?' Is there a sell-by date on us?" Model Cindy Crawford, 53, who appears nude in a new book
We need a massive police operation of random stop and search and extra detention facilities for those caught with knives Ann Widdecombe called Loyal Opposition The crown's so-called Loyal Opposition is being utterly transformed as it swerves so far to the anti-British hard-Left as to become indistinguishable from the British Communist Party Writer Frederick Forsyth If you aren't a bit resilient at my then give up, darling
Classicist Mary Beard Oh, don't believe all that crap The Prince of Wales when asked on radio if he took his own lavatory seat with him on foreign trips
"Although we think of Ancient Greece as a wonderful, democratic place, it had a rigid view about excluding those people whose body forms didn't fit - woe betide the elderly, the fat or the flabby"
Classicist Mary Beard.
Written in honor of the retirement of
classicist Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos from the U.
I found myself tantalized by this excerpt from the latest book by the Canadian poet,
classicist, and translator: "Eve changes human history by putting a free mark on Adam's apple.
POMPEII: NEW SECRETS REVEALED WITH MARY BEARD BBC1, 9.00pm The renowned
classicist and TV historian explores what life was like 2,000 years ago in Pompeii.
Delivering the lecture, Renowned British
classicist, philosopher and ethicist Prof Dr John Edmund Hare has said that every human being should be treated equally.
As a
classicist, she has been inspired by narratology; and now she wishes to reciprocate, to offer something in return for narratologists, namely to show information how much of narratology is relevant already for the study of classical texts.
"They make me feel as close to beautiful as I'll ever get" -
Classicist Mary Beard on her love for glamorous shoes.
Well yes, but that wouldn't really be enough to fill a two-part documentary, so
classicist Dr Michael Scott is going to dig a little deeper.
Bernard Knox had fought in World War II, and Miller recounts the future
classicist's story of finding the Aeneid amid the rubble of an Italian village, opening it, and reading, "A world in ruins ...
It should also make clear his transformation from inspired graphic
classicist to national painter (now that he is once more home in England), maintaining solidarity with the formidable English landscape tradition that runs from, say, John Constable's rural countryside to the angst-filled world channeled by Paul Nash.