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‘She plays the moderate but winks at those who are not’: the many faces of Giorgia Meloni

After almost a year in power critics of Italy’s PM say nobody should be fooled: those giving her plaudits have forgotten her past

The Guardian - UK

HG Wells, Hitler and Tasmania’s dark past: the stories behind arrival cards in Australia’s National Archives

Archive material captures arrival in Australia of celebrities including Princess Anne, Fred Astaire and four-year-old Russell Crowe, as well as The War of the Worlds author’s explosive 1938-39 visit

The Guardian - AU

Italian leader tones down divisive rhetoric but carries on with pursuit of far-right agenda

When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government of the post-war era, she steeped her winning campaign in the sharply ideological rhetoric of national sovereignty, “traditional families” and fear of migrants

The Independent UK

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Contested memory in Giorgia Meloni's Italy: how her far-right party is waging a subtle campaign to commemorate fascist figures

Since coming to power, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and her party Brothers of Italy have repeatedly raised the question of who and what is remembered in Italy. They have paid particular attention to how the experience of Italian fascism is told.

The Conversation

Biden is welcoming far-right Italian Prime Minister Meloni for White House talks

President Joe Biden is set to welcome Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the White House for talks

The Independent UK

Hollywood on the Tiber: stars return to Rome studios once home to Heston and Fellini

Sprawling Cinecittà complex is in demand again thanks to tax breaks and boom in film and TV production

The Guardian - UK

Applause for Little Italy: The magical moment on the streets of Ancoats

Proud and vibrant, men in immaculate suits with sashes across their chests, women and children in traditional costume, they gather on the streets of Ancoats. The picture below was taken in 1955 and the occasion was an annual parade. But black ribbo

Manchester Evening News

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Ancient Rome temples complex, with ruins of building where Caesar was stabbed, opens to tourists

Four temples from ancient Rome stand smack in the middle of one of the modern city's busiest crossroads

The Independent UK

I cannot believe Disney's working on a live-action Bambi movie — this needs to stop

No Disney property is safe, apparently, as Bambi is the latest to be on track for a live action adaptation.

Tom’s Guide

Silvio Berlusconi obituary

Media tycoon and Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister whose period in power ended in sex scandals, a debt crisis and convictions for tax fraud

The Guardian - UK

Italy's Meloni distances herself from fascism on Liberation Day celebrations

Italy's ruling coalition has no "nostalgia for fascism", Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday, looking to push back against critics who have accused her Brothers of Italy party of failing to distance itself from its neofascist past.

Reuters

The artist who had the world at her fingertips

She was one of the world's most highly regarded sculptors so why isn't Dora Ohlfsen a household name?

The Canberra Times

Commentary: Why do so many young white men in America find fascism ‘cool’?

Last fall, just blocks from my apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a gang of neo-Nazis gathered in Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon. Videos showed a group of masked white men shouting, spitting, cursing homophobic slurs and chest-thumping at students. They were part of the Nationalist Social Club, a local neo-Nazi…

Los Angeles Times

Italy partisans criticize Meloni over Nazi massacre comment

Italy's premier has marked the anniversary of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy

The Independent UK

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Reuters

Italian public sector boss resigns after Mussolini email

The head of an Italian state-controlled company resigned on Tuesday after it was revealed that he sent an internal email quoting from an infamous speech by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

The National (Scotland)

Mark Cousins on Hitchcock, Scotland and the rise of the far-right

FILMMAKER Mark Cousins believes Scotland’s screen industry is in a healthy place, having moved from a “C minus” to a “B plus” over the…

WEKU

Italy has kept its fascist monuments and buildings. The reasons are complex

Unlike Germany, which after World War II underwent a rigorous de-Nazification effort, pride, rather than shame, is the emotion many Italians feel for the symbols of the country's fascist past.

Salon

So much for "efficient" dictatorships

Mussolini didn't make the "trains run on time," and Hitler's economy was a disaster. Some lessons must be relearned

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Foreign Affairs

The Vexing Rise of the Transnational Right

Lessons from interwar Europe.

Los Angeles Times

Why fascist Italy was the perfect backdrop for Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio'

If you ask Guillermo del Toro whether his "Pinocchio" is appropriate for kids, he will tell you that "it's not necessarily made for children, but children can watch it."

Chicago Sun-Times

In new ‘Pinocchio,’ puppet owes its life to grief and alcohol

Co-director Guillermo del Toro (‘The Shape of Water’) says the stop-motion film is ‘about things that hurt as a child and as a parent.’

The Independent UK

Italy's Meloni meets Jewish groups, decries antisemitism

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has stressed the “essential importance” of Italy’s Jewish community for the nation and Europe

Reuters

First nationwide map of Italy's fascist monuments goes online

More than 1,400 monuments, street signs and plaques honouring fascism have been put online in the first nationwide attempt to document the symbols of Benito Mussolini's regime that still dot the urban landscape of Italy.

The Independent UK

Why the Qatar World Cup is a betrayal of everything Jules Rimet stood for

The World Cup’s founding father stood up for the working class and saw football as a place for equality to thrive

The Conversation

80 years ago, Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia – but North Africans' experiences of World War II often go unheard

Eighty years ago, in November 1942, the Nazis occupied Tunisia. For the next six months, Tunisian Jews and Muslims were subjected to the Third Reich’s reign of terror, as well as its antisemitic and racist legislation. Residents lived in fear – “under the Nazi boot,” as Tunisian Jewish lawyer Paul…

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