WILL SALVINI'S GAMBLE PAY OFF?

Matteo Salvini of Italy's nationalist Lega Party has been blamed for a "strategic error" after collapsing his coalition government with the 5-Star Party. The erudite and well-informed YouTube blogger Renaissance Horizon (subscribe!) takes a more nuanced view, arguing that, in the modern political arena, the main threat to a nationalist party that gains a degree of power is to "play safe" and move to the old centre.