Lunch with Mussolini

Thomas Jones: Ferrari Speeds Ahead, 14 August 2025

Enzo Ferrari: The Definitive Biography of an Icon 
by Luca Dal Monte.
Cassell, 520 pp., £12.99, February 2025, 978 1 78840 475 4
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... the F430 instead of a more expensive model. There’s an old Top Gear episode from 2010 in which Jeremy Clarkson claims that the F458 makes the F430 obsolete, but there’s an even older episode (from 2005) in which he says the F430 is pretty much perfect. In any case, he’s driven a lot more Ferraris than I have.Before getting in our cars we had a ride ...

Where are we now?

LRB Contributors: Responses to the Referendum, 14 July 2016

... James Butler, T.J. Clark, Jonathan Coe, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Daniel Finn, Dawn Foster, Jeremy Harding, Colin Kidd, Ross McKibbin, Philippe Marlière, James Meek, Pankaj Mishra, Jan-Werner Müller, Susan Pedersen, J.G.A. Pocock, Nick Richardson, Nicholas Spice, Wolfgang Streeck, Daniel TrillingDavid RuncimanSo who​ is to blame? Please don’t say ...

Depicting Europe

Perry Anderson, 20 September 2007

... join with the EU in building “a New European Century”.’ Not to be outdone, the futurologist Jeremy Rifkin – American by birth, but by any standards an honorary European: indeed a personal adviser to Romano Prodi when he was president of the European Commission – has offered his guide to The European Dream.3 Seeking ‘harmony, not hegemony’, he ...