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…
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…
How rescuing Egyptian maus may make me millions
Was it chance or destiny, I wonder, that caused the eldest of our six children, Caterina, to pull over in…
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…
Watching the Euros final in Italy was a bad idea
There was not a Spaniard in sight, I was pretty sure of that. But I was surrounded by the enemy,…
Italians are beautiful – but not on this beach
When Pope Francis complained recently about too much frociaggine (faggotry) in the Catholic Church, he certainly struck a chord in…
Who will my wife marry next?
Since I had a brush with death a couple of years ago, I have often wondered who my far younger…
Giorgia Meloni’s opponents are becoming hysterical
Like drowning men clutching at straws, Giorgia Meloni’s opponents are trying ever more hopelessly to justify their claim that she is a…
Why Giorgia Meloni is taking on Alfa Romeo
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s crusade to defend Italian excellence from the destructive side of globalisation has won a small…
Under the Italian sun, the insects are stirring
The sun was setting on the first day of spring and I felt unusually happy as I fed the donkey.…
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…
