Italy
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Puckish polymath
Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human
The Venice Architecture Biennale
Geopolitical challenges produce impressive art
Same beach, same sea
Rainy beaches and protests in Venice, and dance and sunshine in the South Downs as Britain and Italy trade places
King of the Italians
Why Berlusconi was loved in spite of everything
Saving a saint
Help is needed to secure a Franciscan miracle
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
How gender identity hurt women in Argentina
Argentinian women need refuges — but only for women
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
