Category Archives: politics

Gay Pride 2007: Information?

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Charles Lambert

What’s most interesting today, after yesterday’s euphoria, is the silence of the midday television news programmes (TG1 and TG2). Family Day triggered days of attacks and counter-attacks, as does almost every political event in Italy, however trivial. But today? Not … Continue reading →

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Tired of the same face, the same voice…

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Further proof of woolly thought and self-delusion from Bush’s poodle. In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Mr Blair was asked why the public was disenchanted with him even though the economy is sound. He replied: “I’ve won … Continue reading →

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Your bodies, their bigotry

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Amnesty International’s recent advocacy of abortion in the case of rape, incest or risk to the woman’s health has inevitably got up some clerical noses. One of the largest belongs to cardinal Martino, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for … Continue reading →

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Where are you, UN observers, when we need you?

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Ten days ago, Palermo elected its new mayor. The choice wasn’t particularly mouth-watering. In the blue corner, for Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition, a man of no obvious merit other than a slightly oily bella figura and a clean police record. In … Continue reading →

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Consistency

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Remember when Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger wanted Iran to have its own nuclear power stations? So what’s changed? Oh right. That’s a picture of the Shah! (The poster was issued by Boston Edison in the 1970s. I found it … Continue reading →

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Yeltsin’s inheritance

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Once more, from today’s Independent: The state over which Yeltsin presided had installed a democratic political system, albeit one in which powerful sectional interests wielded excessive influence. But, by any economic measure, society as a whole had benefited only marginally, … Continue reading →

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Guess which one is gay!

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Now that Poland is attempting to ban discussions on homosexuality in schools and educational institutions across the country, with teachers facing the sack, fines or imprisonment, it might be worth reiterating the information in this article, written by Doug Ireland … Continue reading →

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Ian Hamilton Finlay 1925-2006

Posted on April 10, 2007 by Charles Lambert

An interesting article about Ian Hamilton Finlay in today’s Guardian. I’m not sure if his first — and, I think, only — collection of traditional, as opposed to concrete, poems is still available, but I thought it might be nice … Continue reading →

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Love tiff at Arcore

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I’m not quite convinced by this story. Berlusconi’s wife has suffered in silence all these years, even putting up with her husband’s insinuations that she’s having an affair with Massimo Cacciari, philosopher and Mayor of Venice. Now she loses her … Continue reading →

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Thinking about Cologne

Posted on January 26, 2007 by Charles Lambert

… made me think about an exhibition at the Ludwig Museum, entitled DC: Naked Drawings, a large white room full of drawings done directly on the walls by a Romanian artist called Dan Perjovschi. It was a great show, graffiti … Continue reading →

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