Venice
Fear and longing for life after lockdown
This beautiful city has never felt so ugly, with spies everywhere
Not drinking but drowning
Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves