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Making pulp
Read more: Making pulpIf you made it, I can unmake it… There is nothing one president made that another cannot dismantle, or try to. This simple bromide rooted in playground politics never got much of a public airing out until now, when Donald Trump seems determined to undo if not humiliate the key…
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Scrap speaks
Read more: Scrap speaksDemocratic Party leader Maurizio Martina can’r avoid the shadow cast by Matteo Renzi, who resigned in March after an election debacle. In the winter of 2014, newly elected Democratic Party leader Matteo Renzi staged the equivalent of a palace coup. Young, ambitious and impatient to lead, Renzi engineered the ouster…
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Bleach and wag
Read more: Bleach and wagNot satisfied the first time? Try bleach. Donald Trump is a literalist. He misspells words not to spite the language but because he feels like spelling them a certain way, which to him is correct, or feels correct. He contradicts himself endlessly because he literally feels to do what he does at the moment…
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Present arms
Read more: Present armsRacist gatherings and lynching ended only when the U.S. saw an opportunity to look all the more like the “chosen” nation. From the murk of a deep and dark Cold War forest came a propaganda phrase one side used as a bramble to goad the other. There might indeed be…
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Zitná Y2K
Read more: Zitná Y2KA table for two in Prague, 18 years ago. He has it all rehearsed. He’s been mapping it out all day in his Radisson hotel room. He’s spoken to her agent and he’s told him where he’ll be meeting her, in an Italian restaurant on a street he can’t begin…
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The colour of power
Read more: The colour of powerIn 2013, Italy’s south was mostly split between Berlusconi (blue) and the Five Star Movement (yellow). This time the landscape yellow only. No veteran reader of entrails is required to make sense of the 2018 Italian general elections. Also not needed is the dictionary definition of populism. Voting maps tell…
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