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Nicholas Farrell

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Dolce vita / Why I won’t accept the Laurels of Dante 

24.03.2025 10

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Nicholas Farrell

Dolce vita / Why I won’t accept the Laurels of Dante 

24.03.2025 10

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Nicholas Farrell

What The Leopard is really about

16.03.2025 10

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Nicholas Farrell

Sky / What 'Mussolini: Son of the Century' doesn't tell us about fascism

09.03.2025 10

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Nicholas Farrell

What Sky’s ‘Mussolini: Son of the Century’ won’t tell you about fascism

09.03.2025 10

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Marianne Faithfull and my truth about female beauty

07.02.2025 8

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Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’ – an expert’s view

23.01.2025 30

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What Labour can learn from Giorgia Meloni

What else can you do but laugh? Former human rights supremo Sir Keir Starmer has done a deal to tackle illegal migrants with Giorgia Meloni – who...

17.12.2024 10

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If Meloni is ‘far right’, why are neo-Nazis trying to kill her?

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna Italian police have arrested 12 alleged terrorists who are accused of plotting a Day of the Jackal style sniper...

09.12.2024 10

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How Musk, Meloni and Trump are set to define European politics

Few have noticed yet but Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Donald Trump’s key point of contact in Europe – above all thanks to her close...

14.11.2024 3

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Dolce vita / The slippery business of catching a snake

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna It is strange how events elide and create a pattern whose significance remains elusive. I had just returned from a raid...

09.11.2024 3

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Giorgia Meloni is going to war with Italy’s judges

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared war on Italy’s judges who are trying to kybosh at birth her much vaunted scheme to offshore...

24.10.2024 3

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Sea change / Meloni’s migration strategy is working – and the rest of Europe is watching

Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female Prime Minister, has this week achieved what the Tories failed so fatally to do with their doomed Rwanda...

17.10.2024 10

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My teenage Interrailing adventures

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna In my life I have nearly killed myself mainly with cigarettes and alcohol and dangerous journeys into the night. I have...

12.09.2024 3

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Portofino has become a living nightmare

I can think of few things worse than being a tourist. So I must admit that I did manage a smirk, as I swelter my way through yet another Italian...

25.08.2024 4

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My Egyptian mau pyramid scheme

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna Was it chance or destiny, I wonder, that caused the eldest of our six children, Caterina, to pull over in the dead of night...

22.08.2024 3

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