"Simony!" bellows Derek Jacobi's excitable Cardinal Orsini in the opening minutes of The Borgias. I don't mind admitting I had to check 'simony' in the dictionary. It means the selling of sacred ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the coverage of the recent riots, which drew parallels between conditions in 1981 and 2011, there was suspiciously ...