Internal rifts within Vannacci’s party over Gasperini’s programme: whilst the cultural row with Sforzini rages on, the movement is split between reactionary nostalgia, moral battles and those who would like to talk about the future. With the risk of splitting apart even before going to the polls

Roberto Speranza provokes: “Primaries would be an own goal. Let’s put an elderly partisan or a newly-of-age young person forward as the prime ministerial candidate.” But this is merely the latest in a long series of outbursts on the subject. September is here and the left have still not decided who to vote for, how to vote and, above all, whether to vote at all

But only for a few days: time is needed to prepare a measure aimed at lower-income households. Tomorrow, the Council of Ministers will extend the 17 cents scheme, which is due to expire. Each extension costs around ten million a day

Excise duty cuts to be refinanced, new aid for Ukraine to be sent (perhaps by September, though there are those within the majority who oppose this) and the promises made to Amatrice: the challenges facing the Prime Minister (and the government) as they return to work

Italian expansion into Germany. The Germans have noticed it, but we haven’t. Lessons in political realism against sovereignty movements

It was once the most important and prosperous city in southern Italy; today, after years of populism and degrowth, it is spoken of as a patient in need of rehabilitation. But from what?

A first-person account by the journalist snubbed by the PD for the Reggio Calabria by-election in September. The factional rivalries, the secrecy and the power games that continue despite the centre-left’s last three defeats

Anyone still clinging to the PD’s ideas from 2016 now finds themselves ‘on the right’. What common ground can they find with those who have pulled the rug out from under their feet?

Domenico Giannetta, a former member of parliament for Forza Italia, will be Futuro Nazionale’s candidate in the Reggio Calabria by-election for the seat vacated by Francesco Cannizzaro 

The battle for rights used to divide the world into good and bad. Dissent turned into guilt. The cultural Trojan horse exploited by the enemies of the West. This is what the false penitents will never be able to fully denounce