President what President?

Yesterday Berlusconi withdrew from the Presidential race – ‘for the sake of unity’ and went immediately to…

Denis the Menace

 Its been a while since we’ve seen him,  he is after all under house arrest serving a…

Its No Joke

The parties of Salvini and Meloni, and obviously that of Berlusconi, yesterday announced officially that their candidate…

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Padrino called a meeting yesterday.  Silvio Berlusconi – 85 years old, seriously ill, in the middle…

Scratch the Surface

Notwithstanding the ludicrous temperatures in my part of Sicily this week,  (25 degrees at 6 am, and…

Do but Don’t

Italy’s bravura at making rules which are made to be broken comes to the fore again.  You…

The sinner and Saint Raphael

There was once a humble multi billionaire who got caught perverting the cause of justice by paying…

Mattiavelli

The great schemer of his age makes Berlusconi look like an amateur.   Now we learn that matteo…

The Dame is Game

Italian funny man Checco Zalone and Helen Mirren team up for a song to encourage people to…

It’s behind you !

One of the major pastimes in Italy is that of the art of dietrologia – roughly translated…