"We should be under no illusions: if Israel falls, the rest of the West will be next."

'There is a real danger that the new coalition will overlook the urgent need to restore the ladders of aspiration that have been wilfully kicked away since the 1960s'

'It was on the road to Pisa that my family and I had our revelation of the fragility of Western civilisation'

'Alfred Toepfer was not an ambivalent figure: he was a Nazi before, during and after the war'