Italy
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
Europe is breaking the welfare taboo
Are we witnessing the end of the European welfare state?
A ravishing Sicilian treat
Swathed in silk and linen, the prince’s family lives in luxury — but how long can this arcadia last?
Man or superman?
Loud’s biography of Emperor Frederick I is neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job
Buying an Italian hotel
My father advised me to describe myself as a farmer, except when in the company of real farmers
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?