Venice
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Dazzled to death in Venice
At last, a truly world-class experience
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Brought to book
Vexed by Insta videos and impressed by Venice
Murders for November
Killings amid the crunch of leaves
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
Venice’s ugly sister
Almost everything in Mestre is recent; everything is decayed
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
