Month: May 2013

The 100 days – or nearly

Its now 90 odd days since the general election, and a goodly month since we have a…

Is grubby the right word?

A packed two days. Sunday – Gabanelli the excellent journalist who does ‘Report’ did a programme about…

Bleedin Tony Blair

He’s got a lot to answer for.  Forget the WMD (he has), forget the best buddy with…

allegedly.

Things are getting bad if not worse. Mr Berlusconi (you will see the reason for my respect…

The pits, and the pendulum

This weekend has seen the nadir of Italian politics, if it were possible to sink further. On…

tin pot, kettle, black

This pathetic show of parliamentary democracy really irks me sometimes.  We have a government led by the…