Category Archives: berlusconi

Italian finger politics

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Never one to miss a trick, Ryanair has recycled a photo of Northern League leader and Senator Umberto Bossi taken last weekend. His elegantly raised finger was directed then at the national anthem and the notion of Italian unity, something … Continue reading →

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Vulgarity

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Remember Giuliano ‘Tubs’ Ferrara? Obese man wobbling naked along a beach to rescue foetuses? Ex-communist, turned foot-servant/mouthpiece/toe-rag to Craxi (corrupt ex-PM, dead in luxurious Tunisian exile on the run from justice), then Berlusconi (currently rewriting the Italian judiciary system to … Continue reading →

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Quotas

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert

We live in interesting times, as the Chinese curse has it. A few months ago, after reading about the treatment meted out to refugees in Britain and thinking about the mood of anti-refugee rage I encounter so often when I’m … Continue reading →

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Ministerium

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Mara Carfagna is Minister for Equal Opportunities in Berlusconi’s new cabinet. This poster comes from an earlier incarnation as calendar fodder and, oddly, wasn’t used to promote her campaign during the recent elections. Possibly because Italian voters aren’t actually allowed … Continue reading →

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Roman salute

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I don’t live in Rome any more and many of the years I did spend in the city it was ruled by a series of insipid Christian Democrats, their names forgotten, more interested in nest-feathering than the fate of Caput … Continue reading →

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Fly me

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Charles Lambert

After a long weekend of dreadful excess – due partly to the celebration of Italy’s liberation (from itself and its unwise choices), celebrated each year on 25 April by precisely one third of the population, partly to the fact that … Continue reading →

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Shopping

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Charles Lambert

One of the most intriguing aspects of last week’s elections here in Italy – perhaps the only intriguing aspect – is that so far no one has cried Brogli! Broglio is the catch-all phrase for the dirty business that goes … Continue reading →

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Adult content

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert

You may have noticed a new widget called Entrecredits appear on the right hand side of this blog, down near the ‘translator’. In my insane desire to increase my readership and eventually dominate the world, I sign up to pretty … Continue reading →

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The (new) emperor’s new clothes

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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Politometro

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Charles Lambert

You have to live in Italy and speak Italian to get this. It’s one of those tests to see where you stand in the political spectrum. I’m the angry radio. The rest of them are politicians. If you’d like to … Continue reading →

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