The Original Right-Wing Tabloid
Hating the Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is easy to hate, especially if you’re left-wing.(...)
Hating the Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is easy to hate, especially if you’re left-wing.(...)
The Limits of Giorgia Meloni
She couldn’t have been more humiliated. But reality takes no prisoners, and Giorgia Meloni would not be spared.(...)
The 2023 Spanish Election
Surviving Artificial Intelligence
You’ve seen it before. It’s a title that screams marketing department, with all the requisite keywords required to stand out at an airport bookstore:(...)
The Verónica Fumanal Interview
It's all about the truth. Veteran Spanish political consultant Verónica Fumanal spoke with The Battleground about the impact of the 2023 election campaign on the country's press.(...)
The End of Silvio Berlusconi
It’s often written that Silvio Berlusconi’s political fortunes lasted almost thirty years, from 1994 to his death in 2023. But this is not true.(...)
The New Feudalism, Part III
If it sounds twentieth-century, it is. Yet, in 2023, conservatives still complain about communism and, leftists, feudalism.(...)
Silvio Berlusconi and L’Etat Pour Moi
There’s an old Doonesbury comic strip about a group of rich people attending a seminar to overcome their guilt about being rich.(...)
The New Feudalism, Part II
The United States of Coke, or illiberal Hungary? It's hard to get excited.(...)
Sinn Féin Grows Stronger
Northern Ireland is one of those places where historical facts and nostrums get reaffirmed with depressing regularity.(...)