Woman About Town
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
Traffic hazards
Driving in the uncanncy valley, Dartmoor’s cagoule warriors and the wizarding weirdness of the Rowling fandom
Venice’s ugly sister
Almost everything in Mestre is recent; everything is decayed
Unholy influences
The weird and not so wonderful world of influencers, and an open invitation to Theodore Dalrymple to get inked
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Keir-y-e-Liason
Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee
