High energy costs are putting a damper on Italians’ holidays, but arrivals from abroad are driving the sector beyond 2025 levels. From Veneto to Calabria, via Sicily and Puglia, visitor numbers and seasonal adjustment are on the rise. And queues are forming once again outside the Riace Bronzes. Data from Federalberghi 

We cannot delude ourselves into thinking that a law alone is enough to regulate our children’s relationship with digital media. The views of two European ministers. Platforms must be held accountable, parents must get involved: rules are best laid down at home. And perhaps this applies to the people of Maranza too

From the ‘facilitating parent’ to the ‘AI slopper’, right through to the ‘ice-cream kid’ and the ‘super-tanned one’. A few dinosaurs have disappeared, a few monsters have turned up. Happy 1st August!

If the liberal-democratic or liberal-socialist left does not wish to lose support, it must work to foster social bonds based on self-regulation and even self-governance. Dictatorships and authoritarian regimes always arise from social chaos and insecurity

Former Chief of Police Franco Gabrielli, interviewed on La 7, criticised the use of the term even in legislation: “It’s as if, back in the 1970s, we’d introduced anti-‘terroni’ laws. It means ‘Moroccan mosquito’.” But the president of the Accademia della Crusca, D’Achille, puts the brakes on: “The etymology is not actually certain, but there is no doubt that it is a word with negative connotations.”

Height, slimness and hair. If these are lacking, the more sensitive souls may develop complexes, but recently a new form of medicine has emerged. Magnetic nails and potions to combat the ‘reactionary’ body

Adaptation involves genetic mutations or new forms of mobility, special functions and, above all, the millennia. In the absence of further guidance, here is a catalogue of the adaptations required of the contemporary European, together with an assessment of their feasibility