Woman About Town
Scruffy splendour
Holy Week showcases a very Venetian combination of Renaissance splendour and DIY
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
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs