Category: Politics

Reasons to be cheerful (part Diciotti)

You may remember a ship called the Diciotti which Salvini denied permission to dock in Catania, thronged…

Montalbano lost at sea

The threat of an episode of Montalbano dealing with immigrants meant that Salvini took a break from…

A fountain of sanctimony

He may only have one daughter with a pretty standard name,  but in many respects Lorenzo Fontana…

Foa and Foa jr

The committee for the Rai vetoed the election of Foa as chairman, but he refuses to accept…

Rai, Foa and other three letter words.

Hopes that RAI (the italian BBC) may become politically independent are fading with the  latest nominations to…

To the wire and beyond.

It’s been a month of openings and closures: Di Maio for the M5S trying to get support…