Or Delenda est Carthago!, as every schoolboy used to learn before the educational elite decided that Latin was no longer worth it and the classical world was of no interest to the modern one. If it’s relevance they want, they should all head for the Traverse in Edinburgh to watch Alan Wilkins’s engrossing new play about power, politics, and decadence, set against the improbable background of the Third Punic War, in 149BC.   more »

My son is choosing between Mandarin and Latin at GCSE.   more »

A leading article in today's Times comments on a report that a larger proportion of parents are now sending their children to independent schools.   more »