23 APRIL 2005, page 11

I Watch As Nuns Stampede

Alexander Chancellor on the excitement in Rome following the election of Pope Benedict XVI Rome I sense a certain triumphalism in the offices of The Spectator . ‘ Habemus papam......

Second Opinion

THEODORE DALRYMPLE There’s only one thing worse than slavery, of course, and that’s freedom. I don’t mean, I hasten to add, my own freedom, to which I am really rather attached;......