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
Scruffy splendour
Holy Week showcases a very Venetian combination of Renaissance splendour and DIY
Moroccan gold
Enjoy some of the finest food ever eaten at the exquisite Farasha Farmhouse
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try to subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
