PRIORITIES: Italy’s Meloni Cuts The Baloney. “Despite the Russo-Ukrainian War and the growing recession, unlimited Islamic immigration into traditionally Christian European countries is the hot-button topic European elites have been desperate to avoid talking about, and the one in which governing elite groupthink seems farthest away from the actual will of the people.”

That’s changing but not fast enough or in enough countries — then again, who had predicted Italy as the first country in Western Europe to start straightening out its politics?