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Giorgia Meloni: Black and right world of the Italian PM

The far-right Italian PM is a fan of the ‘good guys and bad guys’ politics of Lord of the Rings but she’s proved to be one of the bad guys for the financial sector this week with her poorly received windfall tax move on bank’s profits

Giorgia Meloni, Italian PM: admitted to looking to JRR Tolkien’s fantasy world to inform her own politics. Illustration: Peter Hanan