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What does it mean when Giorgia Meloni quotes G.K. Chesterton?

Is it fascist or anti-fascist to quote G.K. Chesterton, or neither?

1 October 2022

9:00 AM

1 October 2022

9:00 AM

For a UK audience, the most striking moment in the new Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s victory speech will have been that she anchored its peroration to a quote from G.K. Chesterton. ‘Chesterton wrote, more than a century ago,’ she said, ‘“Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four.

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