Category Archives: zapatero

Contempt

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Italian actress, comedian and satirist Sabina Guzzanti‘s in trouble. The last time old broom (read: Berlusconi) swept clean (read: ensure that all critical voices on state television had their contracts pulled from under them) she must have been on sabbatical … Continue reading →

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Insults: fascist style

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

One of Berlusconi’s house newspapers, Il Giornale, published an interview last week with the man responsible for Tourism and Sport in Lombardy, the region that includes Milan and is still controlled by the centre-right alliance, such as it is. Piergianni … Continue reading →

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DICO day: impressions

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The day after, there’s the usual war of numbers: 20,000 according to the police, 80,000 for the organisers; La Repubblica‘s settled on 50,000. Whoever may be right (and I’d go with La Repubblica), Piazza Farnese was jammed with adults, children, … Continue reading →

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Blair yes, Zapatero no

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Charles Lambert

It’s odd that whenever people want to attack the idea of ‘gay marriage’ the stick they use to beat it with bears the smiling Bambi head of Zapatero. The fact that civil partnerships have also been introduced to England under … Continue reading →

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