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Patrick Sawer

08 April 2023

Italy’s years of lead and bloodshed

Forty-three years after the Bologna station bombing killed 85 people, including a young couple from Bristol, a far-right militant was finally jailed for his part in it

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26 August 2021

‘Not quite one of us’… The patriotism of an Italian immigrant

PATRICK SAWER on his Italian immigrant mother’s quiet English patriotism

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20 November 2020

The culture of The Clash and the band’s closeness to fans

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21 May 2020

The myth surrounding Italy that the coronavirus has put to rest

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01 February 2020

What’s it like to be young, black and Italian?

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13 October 2019

Britain’s forgotten fight against fascism

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18 March 2019

PATRICK SAWYER: When Britain fell for Garibaldi

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08 April 2018

The Moro murder mystery: how kidnapping of the century still haunts Italy 40 years on

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30 October 2017

How Handel and opera conquered London

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09 October 2017

Suffering, cycling and the Italian soul

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