Venice
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Christmas at the crossroads
We must pull ourselves out of our current malaise if we are to say we can live, and live well
Idiots and Italian art
I have to bite my tongue or risk being thrown off the flight to London
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Dazzled to death in Venice
At last, a truly world-class experience
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.