Venice
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
Skeleton in the cupboard
Disappearing corpses, theme-park Venice and a post-Brexit smuggling operation
Giving peace a chance
War has had its opportunity, and it has failed
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
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
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
