From ancient court to campaign HQ: Robert Icke’s Sophocles

Have long wanted a chance to celebrate the Sex Pistols. Whatever you may make of Mr Rotten’s question to his last audience in America, “Ever got the feeling you’ve been had?”, the Pistols were great f

A Marxist polemic against analytic philosophy

Goethe’s achievement as artist, scientist and statesman

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Bernard Mandeville’s defence of private vices with public benefits