Woman About Town
Artwashing
Lisa Hilton at the Venice Biennale
Naughty noughties
History repeats itself in more ways than one
Evening Vespas and Gelato alla Gordon’s
When in Florence…
Maxxed out
Battling imposter syndrome in the brave new world
It’s a wrap
London seems like a brave new world after touching down from Venice
Sock it to ‘em
Omicron-cancelled events and surprised marionettes
Welcome to Londongrad
We promise to respect Her Majesty’s life tenancy of Buckingham Palace
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
Incel inside
The Russians assume we use Opera to project state power, I assure them that the government hate the arts
Afternoon delights
Alexander Larman reports from a half-liberated, half-imprisoned world
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
The ghosts of Tory past
The Conservatives are haunted by the spirits of the last two decades
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Poland’s border crisis belongs to the rest of Europe too
A soldier’s tragic death has exacerbated tensions on the border with Belarus
