Nicholas Farrell, The Spectator Journalist Profile

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No, I’m not a British spy

2 days ago | spectator.com.au | Nicholas Farrell

Dante’s Beach, RavennaThe youngest of our six children, Giuseppe, nine, received the Eucharist for the first time on Sunday. He and the other 12 new communicants looked angelic in their white robes. They all had impressive wooden crosses hanging from their necks and the five girls had wreaths of tiny flowers in their jet-black hair.
No, I’m not a British spy

2 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Nicholas Farrell

The youngest of our six children, Giuseppe, nine, received the Eucharist for the first time on Sunday. He and the other 12 new communicants looked angelic in their white robes. They all had impressive wooden crosses hanging from their necks and the five girls had wreaths of tiny flowers in their jet-black hair. Once Don Mauro had finished dispensing the Body of Christ, the bells peeled as if a wedding had taken place.
How Giorgia Meloni became Donald Trump’s EU whisperer

3 days ago | thespectator.com | Nicholas Farrell

Henry Kissinger once complained: “Who do I call when I want to speak to Europe?” Today the answer would be Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female Prime Minister, who has emerged as the most important leader in the European Union. No Italian leader has filled this unofficial role before: it is usually reserved for the heads of the bloc’s two largest economies, Germany and France. Yet Meloni has capitalized on the weakness of their leadership.
Meloni is still proving her Leftie critics wrong

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Farrell

Giorgia Meloni’s opponents and their many friends in the media are cock-a-hoop that the Left has managed to win elections in a couple of large Italian cities. They are treating the victories of the Left in Genoa and Ravenna earlier this month, when elections took place for control of 126 councils, including a handful of major cities, as the beginning of the end for Italy’s first female prime minister.
Meloni is still proving her Leftie critics wrong

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Nicholas Farrell

Giorgia Meloni’s opponents and their many friends in the media are cock-a-hoop that the Left has managed to win elections in a couple of large Italian cities. They are treating the victories of the Left in Genoa and Ravenna earlier this month, when elections took place for control of 126 councils, including a handful of major cities, as the beginning of the end for Italy’s first female prime minister.
Meloni is still proving her Leftie critics wrong

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Farrell
Why the death of Pope Francis brought me relief

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Nicholas Farrell

To be honest, I felt relief when Pope Francis died. This had nothing much to do with his regular assertion, in contradiction of Catholic doctrine, that all war is unjust. Or his view that Ukraine should have “the courage to raise the white flag” to stop more futile bloodshed which ironically is (more or less) Donald Trump’s view. Or his suggestion that Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza. Or his more-the-merrier view on illegal immigrants. No. The cause turned not on politics but on the heart.
Is Keir Starmer ‘far right’ now?

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Nicholas Farrell

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new ‘far right’ mission to lock up asylum seekers in distant countries yesterday suffered an embarrassing setback on live television. The former human rights supremo – who cancelled the Tory Rwanda scheme on day one in office – was in Tirana, less than one year later, to discuss setting up a similar scheme in Albania.
Pope Francis, my love rival

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Nicholas Farrell

To be honest, I felt relief when Pope Francis died. This had nothing much to do with his regular assertion, in contradiction of Catholic doctrine, that all war is unjust. Or his view that Ukraine should have ‘the courage to raise the white flag’ to stop more futile bloodshed which ironically is (more or less) Donald Trump’s view.
Pope Francis, my love rival

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Nicholas Farrell

To be honest, I felt relief when Pope Francis died. This had nothing much to do with his regular assertion, in contradiction of Catholic doctrine, that all war is unjust. Or his view that Ukraine should have ‘the courage to raise the white flag’ to stop more futile bloodshed which ironically is (more or less) Donald Trump’s view.