Venice
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
Artwashing
Lisa Hilton at the Venice Biennale
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
Pleasures of the plague year
Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
