A segment of the Left is genuinely lamenting yet another revolution that has been postponed. After all, what are a few smashed shop windows and a few burnt-out rubbish bins? There is always a Marco Grimaldi who, speaking of the three minors arrested in Turin with Molotov cocktails, manages to say ‘they didn’t want to hurt anyone’, with an obvious sigh of nostalgia

What is the problem with the Left? The tyranny of merit and the usual temptation to confuse inequalities of opportunity with inequalities of outcome. But abolishing merit-based rewards does not make the world a fairer place

They all look alike, but each has its own way of doing things. Globalisation and identity, work and immigration, AI and the techno-right: the dilemmas facing progressives around the world. A dictionary

It is the working classes who have experienced and rejected the era of state control and party representation, and who are seeking the key to their social identity elsewhere and in other ways; they have changed the tone of their voice, as well as the model and scale of their criteria for judgement

New York’s mayor, Mamdani, is a role model who also inspires the French left: Islamism, wokism, communitarianism and socialism

Is the right’s success down to ignorance? Bonaccini has not taken Italy into account, nor those steeped in prejudice, those who believe the semi-educated nonsense circulating on the web and on self-righteous TV, nor those who live and breathe the Constitution without knowing what it actually is.

On both sides, the pitfalls of internal competition and the quest for consensus risk transforming a normalised, stable and rather shrewd – though not indecent – country into one that is uglier, more resentful and less civilised. The difficult coming-of-age test of the elections