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’

The ‘intellectual frauds’ exposed by Alan Sokal and the ‘little Mozart’ of diversity who has resigned. Someone who didn’t cheat by breaking the rules; if anything, he understood the game

After 38 years, Antonio Ricci’s programme is ‘taking a break’, to use the company’s euphemism. It was the nation’s autobiography, and its studios a place of remembrance for this blessed country