Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Shit, scared

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Bible-based marriage

I posted this on Facebook a few days ago, but I don’t want anyone to miss it, so I decided to put it here too.  http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/OFkeKKszXTw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1

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A question of style

The very day Barack Obama was in Cairo, addressing the Islamic world in an attempt to heal wounds and, against all odds, build new bridges, Silvio Berlusconi was addressing a considerably smaller audience in Milan, complaining that there were too … Continue reading

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Big Mike

Sandro Bondi is a professional politician with a degree in philosophy. He started out in the Italian Communist Party (PCI), working as an insurance agent, then became mayor of Fivizzano and swiftly transformed the town council, and himself, into Christian … Continue reading

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Partiality

Italian state television has room for just one programme of investigative journalism. It’s called, all’inglese, Report, and it’s presented by Milena Gabanelli on the minority channel, traditionally controlled by the left in the political carve-up that characterises all aspects of … Continue reading

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Yes, my neighbour…

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Last word? I don’t think so

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Quoted

To my surprise and pleasure, I’ve been quoted by la Repubblica today. You can read the article, about the way Berlusconi is being represented by the foreign press, here. The reference is to the comment I left on Geoff Andrews’ ten … Continue reading

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Democracy at work

Children and religion. Following on from the post below, it seems that not only the Dalai Lama doesn’t get it. A scientific high school in Cesena, in Emilia Romagna, has suspended one of its maths teachers for two months without pay. … Continue reading

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Whoops!

Looks like the Dalai Lama got his kids mixed up. The reincarnation of Lama Yeshe has decided he’d rather study film and behave like, well, a normal twenty-four-year-old. You can hardly blame him. According to this article in today’s Guardian, he … Continue reading

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