Mary Beard: “Learning to think should be destabilising” - New Statesman
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When Mary Beard took aim at Boris Johnson, she shot to kill. It was a 2015 debate on Greece vs Rome: Johnson, then mayor of London on the side of the Greeks, Beard the Romans. “The confession I have t
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