Mediterranean Politics

International | Sports

When Lecce Met Cagliari: A Serie A Survival Scrap with Planetary Side-Effects
ByDaveslocker 19 September 2025

Lecce vs Cagliari: A Mediterranean Derby for the Age of Collapse By Our Man in Purgatory, filing from the Otranto Bar, somewhere between the Adriatic and the abyss There is, of course, no earthly reason why the world’s attention should pivot to a mid-table scuffle in Italy’s deep south. The Arctic is on fire, bond…

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Analysis | International

Napoli: How a Rebellious Port City Became the World’s Favorite Warning Label
ByDaveslocker 18 September 2025

Napoli: The Vesuvian City That Refuses to Behave Somewhere between Europe’s manicured north and its chaotic south lies Naples, a city that has spent 2,800 years perfecting the art of glorious non-compliance. To the World Bank it is a fiscal migraine; to UNESCO it is an open-air museum; to your average commuter it is a…

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