The real food of Venice
The Venetians still love black food pulled from the lagoon that saved them
Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold is The Spectator's restaurant critic.
Thursday
Thursday
Back to the future: Bentley’s Oyster Bar & Grill reviewed
The west end of London is still pale and necrotic, but there are points of light. Hatchards the bookseller is open and its memorial to the Duke of Edinburgh is relatively, blissfully, restrained: a portrait in the window, with minimal text for a writer to trip up on his own sycophancy. People are buying whisky
Saturday
Candace Owens and the rise of the know-nothing public intellectual
She has no knowledge of Hitler, Germany or nationalism. But don’t let that stop her pontificating
Friday
Wallowing in self-loathing with Milo Yiannopoulos
Revisiting my notes from my April profile, it seems clear that his feuds are mere projection of his hatred for himself.
Wednesday
The fall of Milo Yiannopoulos
It seems the phenomenon of Milo Yiannopoulos – the brief, bright arc of his invention – is over. I do not want him to fall without being understood so I will tell you the strange tale of our encounters last year. Monsters should be understood, and pitied, for our own sakes. It is midsummer and he is staying at
Thursday
I’d rather be fat-shamed than have cancer
Sofie Hagen is a young Danish comic I admire. I didn’t see her most recent show, Dead Baby Frog, but I saw her win the best newcomer award at Edinburgh in 2015 and I was happy for her. I liked her sweet face and her fury. The audience treated her as a benign oddity. Because
Thursday
The genius of Stephen King
Stephen King, 69, has sold more than 350 million books, and tries not to apologise for being working-class, or imaginative, or rich. The snobbery has ebbed a little, though; in 2003 he won the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and now the BFI is screening a series of adaptations of
