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Fair cops

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All the news that’s fit to print

The blonde in the green tee-shirt is Noemi Letizia. She’s the eighteen-year-old who calls Silvio Berlusconi Papi and can’t decide whether to cavort on a table in her underwear or represent Italy at the European parliament (and, let’s face it … Continue reading

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Summit

I found this on Facebook. It comes from today’s edition of The Sun. I’m assuming that anyone who follows this blog probably won’t have seen the original. It’s not subtle, but why waste subtlety on Silvio Berlusconi? It serves its … Continue reading

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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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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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More questions for SB…

…can be found in this excellent piece by Geoff Andrews. 

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Snip snap snip

For someone whose media empire is based on vulgarity, indiscretion and an obsession with what famous people get up to in their spare time, assuming that’s still a meaningful concept, Silvio Berlusconi’s attempt to block the publication of photographs taken … Continue reading

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Some are more equal

Remember the ministries in 1984? The Ministry of Peace, responsible for war; the Ministry of Love, responsible for torture? Most governments are more subtle about this sort of thing, but Italy, a country that enjoys subtlety in so many guises, … Continue reading

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