The Italian approach to cheating
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna The unseasonably warm wind blowing in across the fields from the brooding Adriatic caused my wife Carla…
My family dinner table debates about Gaza
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I was in the Land Rover Defender with Rita, my youngest daughter (16), parked up near Dante’s…
My run-in with airport security
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna ‘Welcome back, signore!’ said the woman in uniform at the all-seeing security doorway which passengers must walk…
My Italian family believe Meloni is complicit in genocide
I would like to ask readers for help. My Italian wife and our six children, aged 10 to 22, believe…
The immortal beauty of Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale, who died this week aged 89, was one of few Italian actresses to achieve global stardom along with…
Stromboli is at war with goats
Those in charge of Sicily have at last swung into action after a quarter of a century of inactivity to…
Was I the victim of a sex crime?
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I went up to her and got straight to the point: ‘What are you using for bait?’…
France has become Italy – and not in a good way
France is taking the place of Italy, it seems, as the basket case of Europe. The turn-over of prime ministers…
Meloni is winning her war on left-wing squats
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has won what looks like a significant victory in her quest to eradicate squatting. About…
How Italy’s ‘new young’ party
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna The Feast of the Assumption began for me just after midnight with a WhatsApp message from my…
Is Italy really doing better than Britain?
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna News that Italians now enjoy a higher standard of living than the British made me think: my…
Our seven chickens are ruling the roost
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna All seven chickens we recently acquired are now laying eggs – except the one called Giovanna, which…
The key to Giorgia Meloni’s resounding success
The once sullen, bullied girl, abandoned by her father as a baby, found iron in her soul and refused to become a victim
Trump cannot be a fascist
The global left and their many friends in the media are insisting with increasing hysteria that Donald Trump is imposing…
My daring escape from the Italian police
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I often feel as if I know what it was like to be a member of La…
No, I’m not a British spy
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna The youngest of our six children, Giuseppe, nine, received the Eucharist for the first time on Sunday.…
Pope Francis, my love rival
To be honest, I felt relief when Pope Francis died. This had nothing much to do with his regular assertion,…
Is Keir Starmer ‘far right’ now?
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new ‘far right’ mission to lock up asylum seekers in distant countries yesterday suffered an…
Cardinal Becciu has sacrificed himself for the conclave
The crisis that threatened to poison the secret conclave of cardinals which elects new popes has been resolved. It looks…
The day the King came to Ravenna
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna ‘Fortune’s a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,/ That she may…
Giorgia Meloni is Europe’s most important leader
Giorgia Meloni has confounded her critics yet again as she proves herself to be the most important leader in the…
Can Giorgia Meloni sweet-talk Trump on EU tariffs?
We are about to see how significant a politician Giorgia Meloni really is after she arrived in Washington yesterday evening…
How Italian communists tried to indoctrinate King Charles
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna On the final day of their state visit to Italy the King and Queen were in Ravenna…
Why I won’t accept the Laurels of Dante
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I have just refused to accept the local equivalent of an Oscar, which was to have been…
What The Leopard is really about
Written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa at the end of his life in the late 1950s, it is a novel…
