Last summer, Francis and I spent a week with Rollston College students and professors in Greece,

and learning about the roots of Western civilization in the very place they emerged

was genuinely moving.

If you like Trigonometry, you love the fact that Rollstone runs a one-year MA in Humanities

for anyone with a bachelor's degree or equivalent in any discipline, and there's genuinely

nothing else like it today. The program begins in Greece, where students spent two months

learning to read and speak ancient Greek while studying the foundational works of the Western

tradition, starting with Homer. From there, it continues in Savannah, Georgia, with small

serious seminars on the most important works of the Western

Canon. Ideas are tested properly. Arguments are sharpened. Nothing is spoon-fed. This is education

as it used to be, and as it should be again. Full scholarships are available. Applications

close on the 27th of February, 2026. Apply at ralston.ac.ac slash apply. That's r a L-S-T-O-N-A-C forward slash apply.

Kea-Stama is finished, but what have we learned from the Mandelson and Epstein affair?

Revelations the Prime Minister Kea-Stama appointed Peter Mandelson as Britain's ambassador to the US,

despite knowing that he'd maintained his friendship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein,

have had and will continue to have a series of long-running consequences.

First, and most obviously, Stama's goose is cooked.

He will likely survive the week for the very same

reason he's extremely unlikely to survive the year. His rivals can read the tea leaves. As I predicted

in the wake of Stama's supposed landslide, which was in reality merely the British public

punishing the Tories without any enthusiasm for labor whatsoever, things were

inevitably going to get worse for labor with every day they spent in power. The pretenders to

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