Weidel, her Sri Lankan partner and her PhD in Bayreuth; the TikToker, the ‘Prussian Muslim’, the Putin nostalgist. The AfD defies old categories: perhaps simply labelling it ‘far right’ is not enough to understand its success

Over the years, he has built up a public persona that also acts as a guardian of his own films. A Morettian ‘moral police’ whereby, ultimately, it is no longer the critics who judge the director, but he who judges the critics.

How the counter-offensive ran aground. The Italian version of ‘woke’ and the mystique of anti-fascism. Why cultural hegemony is not a good thing that has fallen into the wrong hands, but a flawed idea in itself

Judging by the comments circulating in recent hours, the Italian version of ‘woke’ – buried by Giuseppe Conte – seems, in fact, to be primarily a matter of etiquette, good manners and an update of the old ‘Political Correctness’, originally imported in the form of Veltroni-style ‘do-goodism’