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There’s an entitlement around going grey that’s reserved just for men. It cuts to the heart of male privilege, reckons Oliver Keens, in a world where women who go grey are mostly scorned. Isn’t it time to re-evaluate the cliché of the wise, sophisticated and desirable grey-topped gent?

The Independent UK

Mary Beard: ‘Everyone is policing everything, and the left are just as bad as the right’

The classicist on life on the culture wars’ frontline, what she owes her mother – and how pizza shaped her TV career

The Guardian - UK

Mary Beard says Harry and Meghan are ‘going too far’

Classicist shared her opinion on the royal couple in a recent interview

The Independent UK

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‘Big books by blokes about battles’: why we need the Women’s prize for nonfiction

Authors and publishers discuss the gender imbalance in nonfiction writing, and ask whether the newly announced award can redress it

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Jessica Hynes’s cultural highlights

The actor and director on what the Romans have done for her, a beguiling staging of a Japanese animation and a peerless podcast

The Guardian - UK

Joyce Reynolds obituary

Classicist and academic who transformed our understanding of Roman imperial history

The Guardian - UK

Who is Cincinnatus? How did Boris Johnson use reference to imply he will return?

The outgoing Tory leader said: “Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plough”

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Who is Cincinnatus and what could Boris Johnson’s reference to him mean?

Speaking in Downing Street for the final time as Prime Minister, Mr Johnson said: ‘Like Cincinnatus, I am returning to my plough.’

The Independent UK

Who is Cincinnatus? Boris Johnson compares himself to Roman politician in final speech as PM

IN his final speech as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson hinted at a possible return when he alluded to a Roman politician.

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson farewell speech: Who was the Roman statesman Cincinnatus?

‘I am returning to my plough and I will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support,’ says outgoing prime minister as he makes way for Liz Truss

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson likens himself to Roman who returned as dictator

Departing PM references Cincinnatus, who turned to farming after leaving Rome – but then returned to power

The Guardian - UK

Mary Beard hopes new Classics bursaries will help share excitement of subject

Five full tuition fees bursaries are being offered to UK-based teachers and other education professionals in disadvantaged areas.

The Independent UK

Story of Jarrow Crusade's Red Ellen to feature on BBC2 this week ahead of Newcastle stage debut

Team behind new play about the remarkable life of Labour firebrand MP will appear on BBC2's Inside Culture with Mary Beard this Friday

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The week in TV: Pam & Tommy; Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art; Station Eleven; Race & Medical Experiments: What’s the Truth?

A transformed Lily James gives us a fully rounded Pamela Anderson; Mary Beard finds no end of illicit art; and an eye-opening documentary explores vaccine hesitancy through the lens of race

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