Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
Dazzled to death in Venice
At last, a truly world-class experience
Confidently Cantonese
Chowing down in the Royal China
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Is “love is love” only for white people?
The Tories have suddenly discovered the book of Leviticus
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
