MARC VANDEPITTE says AI is driving the pace of destruction to unprecedented speed
ITALY’S anti-immigrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has effectively forced Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to resign from office in a scheme aimed at elevating his extremist right-wing League party to power and installing himself in the premier’s office.
Conte, a political independent who has headed a coalition between Salvini’s League and the anti-Establishment Five Star Movement since June 2018, resigned on Tuesday.
In an hour-long speech in the Italian Senate, with Salvini sitting next to him, Conte berated the League leader for undermining the government from within.
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all



