When Covid struck in Australia in 2020 the instant reaction by the Australian Federal government… was to shut down the borders and abandon even those 40,000 Australian citizens residing in other countries who wanted to return. In May 2021, following the Covid surge in India, the Federal government introduced a...

"Negative news about Calabria comes from those who hate Calabria or because of envy, because all it takes is for people to come here to understand how much dignity there is and how many noble initiatives have taken hold in recent years...We are wonderful bastards…We are one of the most...

"Le notizie brutte sulla Calabria le danno quelli che la Calabria la odiano o per invidia, perché basta venire in questa terra per capire quanta dignità e quanta nobiltà in questi anni, si è svegliata e ha preso finalmente piede... Siamo dei meravigliosi bastardi... per cui siamo forse uno dei...

Mostly neglected by history, Teruzzi was always close to Mussolini, physically and ideologically. The enforcer of discipline among the Fascist Blackshirt militia, he played a pivotal role in the march on Rome in 1922 which brought Mussolini to power. In his private life Teruzzi would emerge as an ineffectual man...

If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us anything it is that the value systems of our societies are totally distorted. Workers in the vital professions that provide care for others are precisely those with the lowest status, pay and conditions. This is a reality that immigrants, and women in particular,...

We Southern migrants to Italy’s industrial north all share the same ritual. We take any opportunity we can to break away from grey polluted skies, the heaviness of the air and the stark furrowed fields populated by crows. Year in year out, we all race to the station on the...