Month: November 2012

So the PDL call off the primaries.  There’s not enough time apparently…. or it could just be that they are all servile lapdogs to Mr Toad.  It’s the Emperors new clothes all over again – a wholly autocratic political presence that passes itself off as a democratic party – – a velvet dictatorship of a…

The PDL primaries arent being quite as successful as those of the left held last Sunday.  All arranged months ago, they were to be the model of American democracy, to show just how democratic the autocratic PDL of Berlusconi has become. Then Mr Toad threatened to bring down the government and it was all hands…

So Uncle Steptoe has been plotting in his mansion and has come up with a winning formula.  Relaunch Forza Italia and call it…. Forza Italia 2.0 – like some shitty app you wish you had never downloaded.  Anyway this stunning idea Steptoe thinks will save the world.  HE is ditching most of the PDL –…

A deeply depressing story yesterday, a 15 year old boy in Rome hanged himself because of the homophobic bullying he suffered at his lice (grammar school).  It seems that not only his classmates, who set up a facebook page called I wear pink trousers to ridicule the lad, but also his teacher provided the final…

There’s a fascinating story going on in Italy at the moment, which has yet to be picked up by the foreign press.  And it could be vast…. Heres what happened, though it only came out a couple of days ago. On the 16 October the personal accountant of Berlusconi was ‘kidnapped’ in his house by…

Marina  and Marina, which of course makes Piersilvio Captin Troy Tempest, and their father ….. a mysteron:

and they’re taking aim – Friday is the date when the fan will be hit full on, the reason being Uncle Steptoe whose nose is decidedly out of joint because he’s not important any more. To be fair, the entire Pdl is a bit miffed, because they have been dallying around the regional elections which…

For the umpteenth time parliament has thrown out  a law  which would put acts of homophobia on a par with sexism and racism.   Bizarrely on the same day that France voted to allow same sex marriage, and Spain retroactively condoned the 23000 gay marriages already celebrated, Italy (or rather the PDL, Lega Nord and…

Antonio di PIetro is the leader of Italia dei Valori – a left of centre party set up in the wake of Tangentopoli (the bribery scandal) that brought down the last republic and led to the rise of Berlusconi.  Di Pietro was one of the magistrates who brought various lynch pins of Tangentopoli to justice,…