Nicholas Farrell

The cause turned not on politics but on the heart. However absurdly, I had come to see the Holy Father as a love rival

It is true that I am in a sense in exile here, but that is where the comparison quite obviously ends

‘Duce, are you evil, or did you just do evil?’

Most people in the Romagna have nicknames

He is, it is said, autistic. I think it is this that’s behind his gesture. I do not think he is a fascist