Category Archives: politics

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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Umberto Bossi in running for cabinet post

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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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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Pride

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Recognise this fat buffoon on the left? (Not Berlusconi, the one with glasses.) There’s no reason why you should unless you’re an Italian abroad and received some electoral bumph from his personalissimo party, Italiani nel Mondo – and, I hope, … Continue reading →

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Charlton Heston and, er, Morrissey

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Some of Charlton Heston’s reactionary political antics during the last few decades of his life probably warrant one of my Good Riddance posts, but that’s not all there was to the man. This photograph, taken in 1961, shows another, earlier, … Continue reading →

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A democratic hiccup

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Charles Lambert

People being stripped and lined up for hours on end, on their knees or standing, their hands and heads against the wall. People insulted, derided, beaten with truncheons, bathed in their own urine and blood, forced to sing fascist hymns … Continue reading →

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Polls, polls, polls

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Charles Lambert

If you’d like what looks to me to be an extremely well-informed and regular update on the run-up to the Italian elections, and don’t read Italian, and are tired of the desultory way I address the subject, you could do … Continue reading →

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Conjugation

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This is one of a collection of doctored electoral posters that you can find at the la Repubblica site. A lot of them are funny in a fairly heavy-handed way, though you’ll need Italian to appreciate them, but this one … Continue reading →

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