It doesn’t take a great political mind to see that when the PM breaks the law, it does “something devastating and long-term” to trust in politics, says Marina Hyde in The Guardian. By fining Boris Johnson over cake-and-booze parties during lockdown, the police have confirmed that the leader of our country broke a law he had not only made himself, but one that he had “stressed the absolutely vital importance of sticking to, every night on TV”. No wonder the distinguished British historian Peter Hennessy has declared him “the great debaser in modern times of decency in public and political life, and of our constitutional conventions – our very system of government”.

If you want to study the Western classics, says Alex Lo in the South China Morning Post, “go to China”. Despite growing anti-Western feeling, the study of classical Western texts is “as strong as ever”. There are even star Latin professors like Leopold Leeb of Renmin University in Beijing. His textbooks have become standard references, and he offers hugely popular summer Latin courses for teens and even pre-teens. Leeb’s US counterpart is Princeton classicist Dan-el Peralta, whose main contribution to the subject has been to “denigrate, if not kill it altogether”. Classics, he says, is an intellectual source of “white privilege”. And thanks to Peralta and his like-minded colleagues, Princeton classics students no longer need to learn Greek or Latin at all.