Venice
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
Altogether enough enjoyment
Venice after people
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
The Sinking City
Beset by flooding and corruption, Venice is slowly falling into decline
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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
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets