The Magic Flute was a welcome operatic success for Mozart during his hectic final year. Richard Wigmore considers ten decades of recordings of this enchanting masterpiece... gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…

One week to go until the next Professor of #poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings. 'Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry' 9 May, 5.30pm Examination Schools, High St Oxford ALL WELCOME! No booking required. english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/professo…

Does London's unique and much-loved Wallace Collection require a "transformational journey"? A "masterplan" for the 6-year long, massive overhaul was announced earlier this week. Here's why I have my doubts: thecritic.co.uk/the-transforma…

Cor Ecclesiae laceratur clamoribus, quae de locis belli tolluntur, potissimum de Ucraina, Irania, Terra Sancta, Gaza. Consuescendum non est nobis bello! Immo vero reiciendae sunt tamquam temptatio armorum illecebrae. #Pax

Nous avions publié cet article en 2018. Le constat n'a pas changé. Macron met en péril la tapisserie de Bayeux. Il faut tout faire pour contrer ce projet. Nous y reviendrons bientôt latribunedelart.com/pourquoi-la-ta…

'Putting workload before justice': Dr Felicity Gerry KC not impressed by The CBA's response to Law Commission response on joint enterprise/ substantial injustice which 'risks legitimising a system that allows injustices to persist'. Pic: Isobel Williams thejusticegap.com/putting-worklo…

A two-volume set out this week, edited with energy and patience by Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor Exeter Classics , and I'm grateful to be lurking in there with a chapter on vices and voices #Catullus #Callimachus Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology

❌🛑✋Prêter la Tapisserie de Bayeux, c’est choisir, en pleine connaissance de cause, d’abîmer irréversiblement un chef-d’œuvre de l’humanité, pour satisfaire une volonté politique. Ce n’est pas acceptable. Il faut signer la pétition suivante 👉🏻 change.org/p/non-au-pr%C3…

Want to find out how women are creating and re-creating Classics? Read an excerpt from... 👇 📖 Women Creating Classics: A Retrospective - bit.ly/3UhNNbm 📖 Women Re-Creating Classics: Contemporary Voices - bit.ly/4kGOAh1

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 24, 2025 – rogueclassicism rogueclassicism.com/2025/07/24/rog…

Letter: Unpicking the threads of Bayeux Tapestry accord ft.com/content/dece9a… via @ft

The long period of historically lower Covid infection levels in England has come to an end. Covid infection levels in England have jumped nearly a fifth in the last week. Now is the time for people to start resuming strict precautions against Covid. buds.org.uk/covid-19-risk-…

Excellent summary... now time for British Museum to disclose the scientific reports it is relying on to assure the safety of the move and return or justify the risks which all specialists seem to agree. Open the debate to proper scrutiny Peter Ricketts La Tribune de l'Art

And yesterday I found out I was talking at #FTWeekendFestival on Saturday 6 Sept Financial Times Live 'Why the Greeks and Romans are all the #Rage'. 1st image: Bound at the Flying Dutchman (Nina and Gorgone), 2017 #pink Carcanet Press #Catullus #shibari

A gentle reminder that the UK and Ireland are separated by a land border, not the Irish Sea, which divides two parts of the UK

Not in spite of the occasional excess but because of it, her book gets at a lot of what makes Catullus Catullan: the daring, the boundary-pushing, the emotional nakedness. —Charles McGrath on Switch: The Complete Catullus, tr. by Isobel Williams Carcanet Press hudsonreview.com/2025/08/catull…

For the latest summary of Bayeux Tapestry debate arthistorynews.com/articles/8974_…

Juror jailed for four months after collapsing murder trial by researching ‘joint enterprise’: 'He is being punished for wanting to understand a legal doctrine judges failed to understand for three decades,’ says JENGbA's Jan Cunliffe thejusticegap.com/juror-who-coll…

Hark, a mad Catullus thing. Come to Trinity College, Cambridge, on Tues 25th Nov to hear a bunch of poets take on Catullus's longest poem together:

This week over on the s-- I have written about two big anthologies of love poetry, published originally in the 70s, how they were redone for the new century, and what makes an anthology really stand out. Link in bio and first reply.