As Italy’s new conservative governing coalition begins sifting through the wreckage left by decades of left-leaning government, among its biggest challenges is restructuring a bureaucracy stuffed to the gills with patronage appointments, i.e., incompetents. The new government, writes José Papparelli in the European Conservative, must begin restaffing using people of merit or Italy will continue wallowing in the failed practices of the past.
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.
