“His expulsion was inevitable; he passed information to the enemy – that is, to you journalists. And besides, his think tank had nothing to do with Vannacci.” So says the “Black Baron”, whilst the leader of the FN remains silent

Opinions on Almirante are divided – which is to be expected – but his ambiguous past has led to the current normalisation, in the face of unpalatable far-right ‘red-brown’ factions. Roger Cohen’s dispassionate yet not unfriendly analysis in the NYT

Vigilance against ‘ur-fascism’: this is not about resurrecting a chapter of history that has come to an end, but about exposing underground movements that are a continuation of the past. The response to Minister Valditara

What emerges from the Minister’s reflection on Umberto Eco’s “Eternal Fascism” bears the hallmarks of a genuine ideological discourse, at least in the sense in which Eco explained what an ideological discourse is

In his book of the same name, the great author outlined the universal characteristics of far-right ideologies, whilst omitting the numerous points of contact between these and communism

Meloni’s absurd linguistic reticence and the usual national conspiracy theories