Dstandish's Weblog

Profile: I live in the Veneto region of Italy with my wife, Laura, & 2 sons, Riccardo and Steffan. I teach for the University of Iowa (USA). My book 'Venice in Environmental Peril? Myth and Reality' was published by UPA in the USA in January 2012. Blog posts about problems, challenges and improvements related to Venice are added regularly to this weblog. My writing publications are also added to themed pages. I hope you enjoy the content.

Posts by Dominic Standish:

• Reflecting on the election in Italy and whether Giorgia Meloni is far-right live on TalkTV
• As the last election results in Italy were being counted, I was interviewed live on TalkTV
• On the day Italians are voting for a new government, my live interview on TalkTV
• “Italy’s troubled democracy”. My article on Italy’s general election published by spiked-online.com
• Venice City Council will set limits on the numbers of day-trippers who can enter the city and charge entrance fees
• Today the first dock, ‘Liguria’, for large ships was opened at Marghera on the mainland of Venice’s lagoon.
• ‘What’s behind the worrying trend of people deliberately infecting themselves with Covid-19?’ My article published by RT
• 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.
• In the lead up to COP26, environmentalists have been telling us what to do in our bedrooms. I say butt out of our private lives: ‘Vegan condoms, olive oil lube & solar-powered sex toys: Environmentalists want us to have eco-friendly sex and no babies’, published by RT.
• Protests against the imposition of COVID-19 ‘green’ vaccine passports in all workplaces in Italy. My live interview on GB NEWS