Nicholas Burgess Farrell (born 2 October 1958) is an English journalist and the author of Mussolini: A New Life.
He attended The King's School, Canterbury, and studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, earning his B.A.
[citation needed] He worked as journalist for the Sunday Telegraph from 1987 to 1996, later moving to The Spectator from April 1996 to July 1998.
[1] Farrell's most famous article is a 2003 interview with Silvio Berlusconi for The Spectator, where the Italian prime minister made statements which sparked criticism in Italy.
[4] It was criticized by Tobias Jones of The Guardian, who summarized it by saying that its "basic thesis is that Mussolini deserves his place in the pantheon of great men and that fascism wasn't so bad after all".