The West’s cognoscenti – perhaps better the “condescenti” – appear to have grossly underestimated Giorgia Meloni, reports Benjamin Braddock in The American Mind. While Italy’s populist new prime minister has, as expected, begun to distance her country from the European Union and crack down on illegal immigration, Meloni’s mature statesmanship and shrewd cultivation of the U.S. are confounding predictions of a rapid flame-out. Making the conservative all the more popular among Italian voters.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
