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Reporters would not be able to speak freely under proposed new Gulf state owners, says co-founder of the Art Newspaper

A journalist has revealed how she was sacked for criticising the royal family of the United Arab Emirates as she warned that Telegraph journalists would not be able to speak freely if a planned takeover by the Gulf state went ahead.

It is a brave writer who takes on Venice, La Serenissima, given the long list of distinguished predecessors in whose footsteps he or she must tread, not least those of John Julius Norwich and Jan Morris, let alone the Victorian sage John Ruskin and his 'The Stones of Venice'. Jonathan Keates, the author of La Serenissima, is well aware of the challenge involved. Indeed, he starts his brief introduction with the comment made by Goethe some fifty years before Ruskin was writing that 'about Venice everything that can be said has been said and printed'. Despite Goethe's st...

Unesco’s job is to preserve our most historic sites, yet which ones are favoured can come down to secret alliances and national interests

Ahead of COP26, the letter calls for a comprehensive plan for the UNESCO World Heritage site in the face of increasingly dire predictions.