Sean Quinn / 23 Oct 2023
Unsafe in Any Country
Post-Cutro Decree Italy
Silvio Berlusconi did it regularly. Matteo Salvini codified it with his bully-boy style. This month, it was Giorgia Meloni’s turn to attack Italy’s judiciary.(...)
Giorgia Meloni
John Foster / 04 Aug 2023
The Economy Will Defeat Her
The Limits of Giorgia Meloni
She couldn’t have been more humiliated. But reality takes no prisoners, and Giorgia Meloni would not be spared.(...)
Basilio Korman / 07 Jul 2023
Twilight of a Populist
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.(...)
Josh White / 29 May 2023
A Magazine for Closed Minds
The Critic Needs A New Name
When I was covering NatCon 2023 earlier this month, I couldn’t help but notice the special place reserved for a certain publication above all others. The Critic was the only major UK magazine with a stall at the conference and speakers on stage.(...)
Josh White / 15 May 2023
National Right Makeover
NatCon in London
Arriving at the Emmanuel Centre, I was confronted by loud classical music of the bombastic, patriotic variety.(...)
John Foster / 31 Mar 2023
Italy After Neoliberalism
Mussolini’s Grandchildren, by David Broder
Giorgia Meloni’s election win in September 2022 was a watershed moment in history. Coming from Italy’s postfascist right, Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) was the first party to overcome the antifascist nostrums that had been integral to European politics since 1945.(...)
The Battleground / 17 Mar 2023
Giorgia Meloni, Serial Racist
The ChatGPT Sessions, Volume 1
By community standards, his trip was a failure. Italian Jews protested Netanyahu's visit, and the community's leader, Noemi Di Segni, excoriated him for the settler pogrom in Hawara and for undermining Israeli democracy.(...)
Nathan Akehurst / 30 Sep 2022
Mussolini’s Ghost
The Italian Future Past
Four days before Mussolini’s ghost came back, a friend and I raced through the high-walled alleys of Venice in dazzling afternoon sunshine.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022
The Week Before the Election
Photographing Italian Politics
Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)