Woman About Town
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Brought to book
Vexed by Insta videos and impressed by Venice
First-night nerves
Books, beaches and a beloved bullet
Mostra del Cinema
Historic heartthrobs, cinematic creeps and secreted shoes
Slut-shaming Barbie
Dental woes and devoted dolls
Same beach, same sea
Rainy beaches and protests in Venice, and dance and sunshine in the South Downs as Britain and Italy trade places
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
