Shoes dyed red have become an emblem in Italy’s protests against anti-woman violence.
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A spate of recent high-profile murders has put focus on the role of patriarchy and misogyny in persistent rates of anti-woman violence in Italy.
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In an uncertain world our natural instinct is to seek out answers that reassure, even when they don’t make sense.
Region of Mordor on the map of Middle-earth.
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Tolkien was far more concerned that we take his novel on its own terms as a work of art than that we arrive at some correct interpretation.
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Nationalist parties are the most likely to be found dreaming of a glorious past in their campaign literature, especially in central and eastern Europe.
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Even the most firebrand politicians find they need allies when they reach office, and Meloni’s predicaments make that even more true.
Far-right are fast taking root in France, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Spain and Finland.
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More than a spectre, the latest data shows the far-right is a reality set to bear heavily onto the June 2024 European elections.
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Brothers of Italy want streets named after fascist figures and the far-right’s ‘contribution’ to democracy recognised on national days of memory.
Demonstration in Piazza Della Scala, in Milan (Italy) for the rights of children of same-sex parent couples.
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The Prosecutor’s Office of Padova (Italy) has asked a local court to remove any same-sex non-biological parent on birth certificates, denying same-sex families the right to State recognition.
Groups of refugees from war-torn regions gather in Milan’s Central Station.
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As student protests against high rents unfurl across Italy, one academic points out one of the groups most likely to end up on the streets under a far-right government: young black men.
Elly Schlein’s surprise election as head of the Democratic Party means for the first time, Italy’s governing and opposition parties are both led by women.
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Giorgia Meloni famously became the first woman prime minister last year. Now she has a female opponent as leader of the Democratic party.
Putin’s decision to go to war has seen great geopolitical ripples.
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A year into the war in Ukraine, a historian reflects on how it has affected the geopolitical environment.
Matteo Messina Denaro is pictured in the back of a police car following his arrest.
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The mafia boss is the last known face of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. But his capture represents the end of an era, not the end of the mafia in Sicily.
Giorgia Meloni gestures during the handover ceremony with outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi at Chigi Palace in Rome in October 2022. Meloni, whose political party with neo-fascist roots secured the most votes in Italy’s national election in September, took office as the country’s first far-right leader since the end of the Second World War.
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The so-called New Right is aiming for an ideological renewal of right-wing politics by focusing on cultural identity and the politics of belonging. Here’s why that’s so ominous.
A statue of Plato.
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The first people who studied tyranny were the ancient Greeks, an expert says.
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For the first time, two populist radical-right partners are teaming up to form a government. So who is the outsider now?
Although pregnancy was celebrated in Renaissance paintings, like the ‘Primavera’ by Botticelli, the reality was quite different. Will Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government reverse abortion rights in Italy?
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The baby drop box is a revival of centuries-old cultural practices from the Italian Renaissance when reproductive rights were zero.
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Italy’s next prime minister promises a lot on the campaign trail but the reality of government will prove a shock.
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Italy will have its first woman prime minister. And both Italy and Western Europe will have their first far-right majority government since the fall of Mussolini and the end of the Second World War.
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The return of fascist discourse has been several decades in the making and owes a lot to Matteo Salvini.
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With the opposition all but giving up, a party with origins in post-war fascism is poised to form a government.