The Latest Breaking News from Mussolini

Ben Munster reports from Rome on the reaction on the streets and in the press to Meloni victory - and why her “post-fascism” has stolen into a deeply flawed electoral system.

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

Residents in traditionally leftwing Garbatella district not surprised by rise of woman poised to be Italy’s next PM

The award-winning historian on Putin’s cult of personality, why he loves Turgenev, and giving up on books after 20 pages

In his trademark subjective style Cousins uses archive and contemporary footage to show the dictator’s dishonesty and brutality

Prior to the proscriptive Hays Code, films were populated by adulterous, marijuana-smoking gold diggers – wildly entertaining and more modern than the roles that came next

Since Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, mass murders in the name of white replacement theory (WRT) have become prevalent. Many of these killers, including Breivik; Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch shooter; and Payton Gendron, the suspect in the massacre in Buffalo, New York, are self-identified as fascists.

Lucy Bailey’s ambling production of Shakespeare’s comedy, set in Italy on the eve of Mussolini’s defeat, exudes pastoral elegance and feels like the start of summer

Mayor Colette Connolly said the accusation was 'out of order'