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Italy’s political turmoil deepens
Already facing increasing energy costs from the war in the east, attitudes to Ukraine have also split the Five Star Movement, the biggest grouping in parliament, plunging the government back into chaos, reports NICK WRIGHT
JOINING THE WAR BLOC: PM Mario Draghi (right) has moved closer to the EU and Nato, alienating some of his M5S party colleagues
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
THE weather is hot, tempers are short and, once again, government is in crisis.
It normally is — and this one will not be settled while Italians are heading for the beaches.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has split from the populist Movimento Cinque Stella (Five Star Movement, M5S) taking 60 of the party’s 227 members of the country’s Chamber of Deputies.
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