2021
Forthcoming, summer 2021: article in The Idler on Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Lessons from Britain’s first atheist MP – on Charles Bradlaugh, blasphemy, and the Scottish Hate Crime Act, New Humanist, 20 May 2021
We Must Cultivate Our Gardens – review of John Sellars, The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness; Sarah Sands, The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life, Literary Review, March 2021
2020
Porkers & Pissheads: The Pig War by John Placentius; How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing, by Vincent Obsopoeus (both translated from Latin by Michael Fontaine) – Literary Review, April 2020
Should lessons on sex and religion take parents’ wishes into account? – Spectator Life, 12 March 2020
2019
Three Voices of Mauritius – a literary experiment in The Fortnightly Review, 3 August 2019
Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher, by Armand D’Angour – The Spectator, 30 March 2019
2018
Metamorphica, by Zachary Mason – The Spectator, 29 September 2018
Latin: Dead or alive? – the sad state of classics in schools, from a former teacher’s perspective, The Spectator Schools Supplement, 8 September 2018
The Best Food Festivals in 2018 – Spectator Life, 19 July 2018
Gods, Guys and Guns. A review of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – National Secular Society website, 14 June 2018
Mary and the Witch’s Flower – Review (anime by Studio Ponoc), The Flaneur, May 2018
2017 and earlier
How classics can teach about teaching – brief piece on my approach to teaching, Bright Young Things blog, 2016
Time to brush up the public image? – on the shipping industry’s relationship with the media, Maritime Risk International, 2016
E.C. Park (2014). Review of ‘Modernity and Plato. Two Paradigms of Rationality’, Classical Review (New Series), 64, pp 610-612
Blow Up Media Studies – review of Toby Miller, Blow Up the Humanities, in The Oxonian Review, 2013
