The philosopher: “Fellini wondered why we have regarded young people as messengers of some sort of absolute truth”

Power remains on the outside. The picture is the same as ever, in a society and a state where everything is about education, everything is about sentiment and the heart. The highly civilised culture of the peninsula, at least, is superior to Gallic barbarism

Since 2022: the same acronyms, the same photos of ministers daubed in red, with Turin as the epicentre. This year’s new developments are different: the French model, the target expanded to include the PD and the CGIL, and the cap on foreigners as a rallying cry. And a paradox regarding the ‘war’

With a short beard, composed demeanour and a gentle voice, yet speaking with the vocabulary of a professional activist, the president of the USL trade union is a daily presence in front of the cameras and on public radio, where he denounces “social and racist discrimination”, “decaying” institutions and “police violence”. The media’s warnings about the movement