Judging by the words of the PD secretary, there is good reason to suspect that if she had been asked what time it was, or whether she preferred the seaside or the mountains, the answer would have been exactly the same. The programme will probably appear one morning as a result of parthenogenesis. Born of itself, without fathers and therefore without dissidents. The case of Bacillus rossius

At the Green Alliance and Left party rally, ‘the alternative’ gathers, though it remains without a programme or a leader. From the crowd, people shout: ‘Get a move on!’, in thick Roman dialect. Surprise: the Greens like Silvia Salis

“You cannot expect to disarm Kyiv at such a delicate stage, but the serious question to ask is: was and is sending weapons the only way to help it? And could the EU not have acted as a deterrent in some other way?”

The argument that primaries are divisive is unfounded. Primaries are one of the most effective tools for creating an alternative. The ‘Francesco Piccolo’ motion to scrap them is self-defeating and distances the broad coalition from a mirror called reality.

The former Defence Minister and architect of the Ulivo coalition told Il Foglio: “The time has come for Schlein and Conte to talk to each other, looking each other in the eye”, starting with foreign policy and the leadership of the coalition. To the Democrats: “Enough of these shenanigans. The PD’s faction leaders seem to want to weaken the party leader”

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

The leader of the M5S has written a manifesto-style letter on ‘woke’ culture and the left. He is setting out his position ahead of the September primaries, with the evergreen ‘no’ to rearmament. Malpezzi: ‘Use it to talk about inequalities’. Sensi: ‘They jump on the debate of the moment and attack the PD’. Quartapelle: ‘Second thoughts on “woke”? I preferred the one on the Superbonus’.

There could be six candidates. According to the polls, the former prime minister is the favourite at the polling stations. And Magi (+Europa) is reigniting the battle against the Melonellum: “On 15 September, out onto the streets”. From online voting to the run-off: all the key issues