Month: September 2011

snow in Sicily

Here’s a good’un… The comune of Palermo has a squad of snow clearers – who are paid…

The Italian Dead Sheep

There is a little known rule that the worst chancellors should resemble characters from films about minor…

closing ranks.

Tomorrow, its this charmer who will make the news here.  its Saverio Romano, a centre right MP…

Baila!

Not a good day for Berlusconi yesterday.  He was meant to be in court in the Mills/Mediaset…

  THE DEMOCRACY OF ITALY   It is this perhaps which is the greatest joke perpretated on…

It is a woman – it is not a contestant from american’s next drag queen, and it…

Who’s who in Italian politics – 1

Here’s the first of an occasional series about the governing class.   All of you who lament…

Standard But Poor

So Italy is downgraded to an ‘A’ – and Mr Toad blames the media – forgetting that…

Please elucidate

Mr Toad: ‘The budget has saved Italy’.  From what exactly?  Not only – we are told –…

An emergency budget that doesnt budge.

its a miracle…. Mr Toad has reached agreement with his croies forthe latest of his emergency budgets….