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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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
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library