Month: March 2019

  • Berlusconi’s Pad

    The story of Arcore It’s a story that reads like a film.   As a plot of a film it would be dismissed as barely credible.  A story that involves the aristocracy, politicians and a Prime Minister, as well as sex, murder and the Mafia,   and yet is unknown outside Italy. Arcore is Silvio Berlusconi’s home. …

  • A very Italian poisoning

    Imane Fadil was one of Berlusconi’s bunga bunga girls.  She died at the beginning of March after over a month of agony in a Milan hospital.  When she arrived in hospital she told the doctors and her lawyer that she had been poisoned.   The police were called only after she died.  It’s a very Italian…

  • Tic Toc

    The EU bigwigs have decided that by 2021 all member countries can decide if they want to have permanent winter time or summer time.  Apparently this is due to the fervent desire of its 500 million inhabitants.   There was an online questionnaire about this last summer, completed by 7 million, of which over 4 million…

  • I Millibandi

    Italy has finally caught up with the UK.  These two unlikely brothers (could they be related?) are the Zingarettis: One, Luca, is Inspector Montalbano and more well known than  Nicola who is now the leader of the PD – the Italian labour party.   Luca is the big brother, while Nicola is the president of the…