You can scoff if you want, but we live in dangerous times for Democracy."

I am not scoffing, and I worry just as much as you do about threats to democracy. I just wish that you and Donuel would look at the complicated history of right-wing politics in Italy - which is hardly my fault! - before coming out with throwaway remarks. Ms Meloni is a very nasty piece of work, opposing immigration, abortion, gay marriage and anything LGBT, among other undesirable traits. But we analyse her in terms of today, not in terms of a murderous fascist who died nearly eighty years ago. And today's context, in which she will have to operate, is far removed from the context of eighty years ago. That's all.