How I ran away to Italy
A quarter of a century ago I somehow managed to get out of Paris where I had haunted a cheap…
The ancient roots of Italy’s Festa della Befana
In Italy if you are not careful, you are condemned to measure out your life in religious festivals. There are…
Are the Pope’s allies funding people smugglers?
Some of Pope Francis’s closest allies in the Catholic Church are alleged to have secretly given more than €2 million to…
The Italian left wants to blame Giorgia Meloni for the patriarchy
This weekend, demonstrations took place in major Italian cities to mark the UN’s international day for the elimination of violence…
Could Britain learn from Italy’s Albania plan?
Italy has become the first European Union country to bite the bullet and set up a scheme to off-shore migrant…
How Giorgia Meloni stabilised Italy
Giorgia Meloni has just marked her first year as Italy’s prime minister. When elected, she was described as a far-right…
Italy can’t handle the migrant crisis alone
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to Lampedusa at the weekend – at the invitation of Italy’s right-wing Prime…
The tragedy of Italy’s dead bear – and the folly of rewilding
A butcher who has killed the most famous wild bear in Italy is now unable to leave his house for…
How Georgia Meloni plans to stop the boats
Few can argue that the arrival of 100,000 illegal migrants to Britain from France by small boat since 2018 is…
Shell shock
Italy is under attack from a foreign crab
Giorgia Meloni and the true migration hypocrites
Cerberus, the record-breaking heatwave that has struck the Mediterranean, will be followed next week by another one called Charon – after…
Here come the girls
The march of Europe’s right-wing women
The visionary madness of Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi, whose state funeral will take place today in Milan, was the first modern populist. The media tycoon became a politician to take…
Italy’s crackdown on cyclists is long overdue
Years of exposure to their arrogance, illegality and sense of entitlement has shown me that Italy’s cyclists are a public…
Who is really to blame for Italy’s devastating floods?
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni cut short her presence at the G7 summit in Hiroshima this weekend to visit the…
France’s migrant hypocrisy
The French have revealed yet again their shameless hypocrisy in regard to Europe’s illegal migrants crisis that this year looks…
Boats and bambini
The battle for the soul of Italy
Should Italy’s killer bear be sentenced to death?
The female bear that mauled to death a male jogger in the Italian Alps on 5th April was captured this…
Troubled waters
Meloni’s plan to ‘stop the boats’
Shifting the axis
Giorgia Meloni’s vision for Europe
The hounding of Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi has been acquitted of paying bribes worth €10 million (£8.9 million) to female guests at his notorious bunga…
Georgia Meloni’s first 100 days have proved her critics wrong
Macho Italy’s first woman prime minister Giorgia Meloni has now governed for 100 days and I cannot help but notice…
Qatargate has exposed the staggering hypocrisy of the European left
Ravenna, Italy Everyone in Britain has focused on what the Qatargate corruption scandal reveals about the European Union – but not…
When it comes to migrants, Britain needs to be more French
Rishi Sunak’s fighting talk as he launched the latest Tory crackdown on illegal Channel migrants this week, with the dramatic words…
Silvio’s mission
Berlusconi reckons he’s the man to broker peace in Ukraine
