Nicholas Farrell

How Giorgia Meloni stabilised Italy

30 October 2023 7:35 am

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

20 September 2023 9:32 pm

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

9 September 2023 11:00 am

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

28 August 2023 6:32 pm

Few can argue that the arrival of 100,000 illegal migrants to Britain from France by small boat since 2018 is…

Shell shock

26 August 2023 9:00 am

Italy is under attack from a foreign crab

Giorgia Meloni and the true migration hypocrites

17 July 2023 5:00 pm

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

1 July 2023 9:00 am

The march of Europe’s right-wing women

The visionary madness of Silvio Berlusconi

14 June 2023 8:00 pm

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 

12 June 2023 5:49 pm

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?

22 May 2023 10:22 pm

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni cut short her presence at the G7 summit in Hiroshima this weekend to visit the…

France’s migrant hypocrisy

8 May 2023 1:27 am

The French have revealed yet again their shameless hypocrisy in regard to Europe’s illegal migrants crisis that this year looks…

Boats and bambini

29 April 2023 9:00 am

The battle for the soul of Italy

Should Italy’s killer bear be sentenced to death?

23 April 2023 7:15 pm

The female bear that mauled to death a male jogger in the Italian Alps on 5th April was captured this…

Troubled waters

15 April 2023 9:00 am

Meloni’s plan to ‘stop the boats’

Shifting the axis

4 March 2023 9:00 am

Giorgia Meloni’s vision for Europe

The hounding of Silvio Berlusconi

21 February 2023 11:35 pm

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

5 February 2023 11:00 pm

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

24 December 2022 11:52 pm

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

17 December 2022 11:06 pm

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

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Berlusconi reckons he’s the man to broker peace in Ukraine

How Mussolini invented fascism

22 October 2022 8:40 pm

Benito Mussolini, the revolutionary socialist inventor of fascism who came to power 100 years ago this week, was one of…

Giorgia Meloni shows Silvio Berlusconi who’s boss

19 October 2022 10:20 pm

Giorgia Meloni, who is about to become Italy’s first female prime minister, has won her first major battle. It was…

Giorgia Meloni can’t afford to fight the EU

27 September 2022 10:25 pm

Ravenna, Italy The victory of Giorgia Meloni in Italy with ahuge majority of seats in parliament has prompted the expected…

Prima donna

20 August 2022 9:00 am

Giorgia Meloni is favourite to be Italy’s next prime minister. What does she really believe?

Mario Draghi’s fall and the death of Italian left-wing populism

21 July 2022 6:31 pm

So, another unelected Italian government is collapsing, and the putatively pro-democratic media are all calling it a ‘dark day.’ In…