A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
The “mulatto” Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
Not drinking but drowning
Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future
High old time
Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
