Monthly Archives: February 2009

International relations

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Barack Obama finally called Berlusconi yesterday. He ordered four pizzas with peperoni and two bottles of Nastro Azzurro.

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Death and the state

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Last December I posted on the case of Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who had been in a state of vegetative coma for the past seventeen years, following a car accident when she was twenty. After years of legal to-ing … Continue reading →

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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Charles Lambert

I started writing this post over a week ago. This is what I said. Italy took one more large step towards an effectively fascist regime the day before yesterday with the approval by the senate of a bundle of legislative … Continue reading →

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Subliminal advertising

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Charles Lambert
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Reading group? Listen up!

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Charles Lambert

If you’re a member of a reading group, or would like to set one up, or know anyone who’s already a member of a reading group, or think your next-door neighbour may once have belonged to a reading group, or … Continue reading →

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Boys will be boys

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Charles Lambert

If you look in an English-Italian dictionary for a translation of the word ragazzo, you’ll find ‘boy’, followed by ‘boyfriend’, ‘young man’. Italians of all ages frequently use the word to address a group of friends, the irony more evident … Continue reading →

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In England – now!

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Charles Lambert

I’m not actually in England right now, but everyone else seems to be posting photographs of snow and I had this picture my sister sent me, which actually looks like a black and white photograph apart from that wonderful  slash of vivid … Continue reading →

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Countdown

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Recognise this? Of course you do! It’s the front cover of the paperback edition of Little Monsters. It’s slightly different from the hardback – my name’s now larger and centred (an entirely thrilling development) and Beryl Bainbridge’s generous endorsement has … Continue reading →

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