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Rekindling a romance with Rome

10.09.10
Can modern Rome live up to idealised memories of a teenage idyll? Sasha Slater rekindles the romance on a pilgrimage to Piazza Navona... more

This papal visit is hardly in the national interest

06.09.10
I think we can agree that Popemania is not exactly sweeping the nation ahead of His Holiness’s visit this month... more

Mistresses lost in the Summit Conference plot

19.08.10
Summit Conference tells the story of an imaginary meeting between the mistresses of Hitler and Mussolini... more

A family at war with Mussolini in Baaria

23.07.10
Giuseppe Tornatore's Baaria, like his best-known work Cinema Paradiso, goes on too long and, despite its visual felicities, in the end tries the patience... more

Mussolini and his mad mistress in Vincere

14.05.10
Vincere is a chillingly authentic biopic tells the story of the Italian dictator and his discarded lover who ended up in an asylum... more

A shore thing at Lake Como

21.04.10
Rumour is rife that George Clooney is selling his Lake Como pad. He’ll miss all those sumptuous villas and regal palaces, says Geordie Greig.... more

Urban Africa by David Adjaye shows a continent and its city limits

01.04.10
London-based architect David Adjaye ambitiously aims to address what is a continent-sized void in architectural discourse with this exhibition of photographs of Africa’s key cities... more

Diary of Mussolini's lover reveals tears of 'old sentimentalist Hitler'

17.11.09
Diaries written by the lover of Benito Mussolini tell of the intense and at times tearful relationship between the Italian dictator and Adolf Hitler... more

Sporting Miscellanies

11.08.09
English football prepares to welcome its most influential thinker from the Italian Far Right since Paolo Di Canio... more

Music and Mussolini

05.08.09
With three pieces by Ottorino Respighi, the Italian dictator’s favourite composer, receiving their Proms premieres, William Ward examines the cultural legacy of fascism.... more

Spike Milligan's Adolf Hitler shows a goon's mad war zone

28.07.09
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall is a delightful adaptation of Spike Milligan's books of war memoirs.... more

Futurism imperfect at Tate Modern

18.06.09
It was a revolutionary movement that boasted of creating a new beauty — but the Futurism exhibition at the Tate misses many of its big moments.... more

The day Boris Johnson went strikebusting

11.06.09
As the RMT threatened to bring London to a halt, Stephen Robinson spent 24 hours with a Mayor intent on keeping the capital moving.... more

The glove that changed Guernica

08.05.09
In 1937, the blitzing of a Spanish town prompted Picasso to begin work on a vast painting – but one poignant item gave his masterpiece its final form.... more

Your move ... Scots want chess set back

25.03.09
The British Museum has put a set of elaborately carved chess figures at the heart of a new gallery despite demands that they be returned to Scotland... more

Poor Picasso

27.02.09
Picasso is not served well by the National Gallery's new show but there are enough thrilling pictures to make it worthwhile.... more

Hats off to the decadence in V&A

25.02.09
The economy is in freefall, the V&A has an exhibition of hats. The timing is sublime.... more

Wit and intellect from The Russian Linesman

18.02.09
The Russian Linesman shows that conceptual art's themes of social hierarchies and cultural assumptions go back centuries.... more

Even bankers must join the flight from excess

31.10.08
Despite its bail-out, Goldman Sachs is set to pay out £7bn in salaries and bonuses. It is failing to grasp a new public fury over conspicuous consumption... more

What fabulous faces

17.10.08
The spirit soars at the sight of so many masterpieces in the National Gallery's new show of Renaissance portraits, says Brian Sewell... more

Silent wife only learned of 'spankings' in newspaper

24.07.08
Max Mosley's wife Jean was the unseen presence at his High Court victory... more

Sibling rivalry — Italian-style

03.04.08
Adapted from the novel Il Fasciocomunista, My Brother Is an Only Child, is a compressed but intelligent, observant and well acted piece of work ... more

A restaurant that makes you forget the city

09.07.07
If Mussolini had been a restaurant designer, Geales would be a fine example of his work, says Mark Bolland.... more

Can you dig it?

17.05.07
Life on an allotment is like an Ealing comedy, says Valentine Low, who tends his own plot in East Acton. So what does he make of a new British film about urban gardeners, Grow Your Own?... more

Who will we fall in love with this year at Cannes?

10.05.07
There may be no Brits in competition, but there's plenty else to watch out for in the most important festival of the film calendar... more

Brooks the unstoppable laugh machine

16.11.06
It would be understandable if at 80 Mel Brooks was taking it easy. But at this exclusive charity gig, Brooks proved he is still an unstoppable comedy show-off.... more


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