FILM OF DEBATE: Modernisation, development and conservation. Click on the image below to view this film
Book review of Roger Scruton’s ‘Green Philosophy’: weaknesses in thinking seriously about the planet. Click on the image below to read the review
‘In Venice, cruising has been unfairly demonised but can be improved’, my comments for ‘Cruise ships: Blessing or blight?’ a Good Tourism Insight Bite including many contributions
These multiple contributions by travel and tourism stakeholders were published by the Good Tourism blog on 2 May 2023. You can read them by clicking on the following link and registering free for the Good Tourism blog, which I highly recommend: https://www.goodtourismblog.com/2023/05/cruise-ships-blessing-or-blight/#DS This is the text of my own comments: In Venice, cruising has been … Continue reading
My latest article on tourism in Venice: ‘Mass tourism in Venice: Are city officials overreacting?’ Published by The “Good Tourism” Blog
This article was published on 11 April 2023. It can be read by following the link below: It is free to subscribe to the above blog, which I highly recommend for many excellent articles. Feel free to share it on social media. The text of my article is also below: Mass tourism in Venice: Are … Continue reading
Reflecting on the election in Italy and whether Giorgia Meloni is far-right live on TalkTV
Peter Cardwell interviewed me live on 1 October 2022 below: This is the article I wrote before the election, published by Spiked-online on 23 September 2022: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/23/italys-troubled-democracy/
As the last election results in Italy were being counted, I was interviewed live on TalkTV
This interview below was at 1.35 Italian time on 26 September 2022 This is a link to the article by me about the election published on 23 September 2022: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/23/italys-troubled-democracy/
On the day Italians are voting for a new government, my live interview on TalkTV
Click on the image below to see the interview recorded live on 25 September 2022: This is a link to the article by me about the election published on 23 September 2022: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/23/italys-troubled-democracy/
“Italy’s troubled democracy”. My article on Italy’s general election published by spiked-online.com
Before Italian voters go to the polls on 25 September for a vital general election, I set out the election’s importance and some of the key issues on 23 September published at this link: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/23/italys-troubled-democracy/ This is the text of the article: Italy’s troubled democracy For more than a decade, Italians haven’t voted in their … Continue reading
Venice City Council will set limits on the numbers of day-trippers who can enter the city and charge entrance fees
Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro announced on 30 May 2022 that Venice City Council will begin experimenting with bookings for day-trippers to enter Venice this July using this website: https://www.veneziaunica.it/en/content/how-it-works. He declared that this will not yet be obligatory to book to enter the city. Instead, day-trippers who book from 1 August 2022 thirty days before … Continue reading
Today the first dock, ‘Liguria’, for large ships was opened at Marghera on the mainland of Venice’s lagoon.
This new dock will allow a cruise ship to dock there this Saturday, 9 April 2022, for the first time. It will avoid sailing through the centre of Venice and St. Mark’s Basin. In addition, Fusina Terminal, also on the mainland of the lagoon, will provide support for docking and a second dock, Terminal Tiv, … Continue reading
‘What’s behind the worrying trend of people deliberately infecting themselves with Covid-19?’ My article published by RT
Unvaccinated people across Europe facing severe restrictions are deliberately infecting themselves to gain their freedom, but this risky to the health of vulnerable people. This article was published on 4 February 2022. Click on this link to read the article: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/548353-unvaccinated-people-infecting-themselves-covid/ or the PDF here:
The MOSE mobile dams were raised five times last week to reduce high flooding in Venice. But work on the dams is still incomplete and two locks are not functioning, placing limits on shipping and affecting the lagoon.
It is great that the MOSE mobile dams in Venice were raised five times last week to reduce high flooding. This means the dams have been deployed 25 times since 3 October 2020 against flooding. While most of the talk at the ongoing COP26 conference on climate change is focusing on mitigating against climate warming, … Continue reading
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Book Review of ‘Venice in Environmental Peril? Myth and Reality’ by Elisabetta Gasparoni. Click on the image below to read the review on Spiked Review of Books
‘IS MASS TOURISM RUINING VACATIONS AS WE KNOW THEM?’ MY COMMENTS AS ONE OF THREE INTERVIEWEES DURING LIVE TV AND YOUTUBE BROADCAST BY AL JAZEERA @AJSTREAM
New York Times/International Herald Tribune. My comments on Pierre Cardin’s proposed LIght Palace for Venice. Click on the image below to read the article
Venice suffered its worst floods for 20 years in 2019. My interview on Euronews
‘VENICE ASKS OTHER PORTS TO HELP FIND SOLUTION TO CRUISE SHIP PROBLEMS’. ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN INCLUDING MY COMMENTS
IMPROVING LAND USE TO FEED MORE PEOPLE. INTERVIEW WITH ME AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SPECIALIST ON SKY NEWS LIVE
‘VENICE OVERTOURISM?’ TV AND YOUTUBE INTERVIEW WITH ME AND TWO ITALIANS ON THE NEWSMAKERS, @TRT WORLD
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‘Italy: Renewables Policy as a Barrier to Energy Innovation.’ Click on the image below for a link to the paper
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