Woman About Town
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
Skeleton in the cupboard
Disappearing corpses, theme-park Venice and a post-Brexit smuggling operation
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
In with the It crowd
International glamour and the comforts of home
In arcadia ego
Finite life and Infinite Jest
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
The disgrace of ACE
Arts Council England has failed to support artists and art
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
Turn down that bloody music
Historic occasions shouldn’t be ruined by narcissistic prats
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
Chasing rainbows
Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery
A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland
People suspected of sexual offences pre-charge will not have the right to automatic anonymity
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
