Nicholas Farrell
Nicholas Farrell is a journalist in Italy. He is the author of Mussolini: A New Life and is writing a biography of Meloni
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
