Melanie Phillips says that Islam is intrinsically anti-Semitic; Daniel Goldhagen tries the same argument with Catholicism
Italy is facing its worst crisis since the Second World War
Italians saw in Berlusconi what they saw in Mussolini – an anti-establishment figure who defied the law
Closing the embassy makes no economic logic – rather it is down to a ‘cooling of relations’
Alice Thomas Ellis’s life was overshadowed by tragedy, and so makes great reading in this, the month of death
Now that he’s a father, the heart-throb actor might finally discover what love really is, a love that can never be replaced
And when the inevitable finally comes, the Greeks who suffer most will be the least guilty
For the sake of political posturing and ending ‘discrimination’ against women and Catholics, David Cameron is opening the monarchy up to secularisation. It is political vanity for which future generations will pay a high price
Novel writing and religion tend not to go together well
Believers ought not to be self-obsessed, but novels are about self-obsession