Category: Politics
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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…
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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…
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Reasons to be cheerful (part Diciotti)
You may remember a ship called the Diciotti which Salvini denied permission to dock in Catania, thronged as it was with migrants who had been saved at sea. He was putatively indicted for hostage taking and denial of human rights. Of course being an MP the rest of the club have to vote as to…
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Montalbano lost at sea
The threat of an episode of Montalbano dealing with immigrants meant that Salvini took a break from eating all the pies to go on tv directly afterwards to refute anti immigrant accusations. In the end it was a storm in teacup, and Salvini used the moment to a) slag off the French b) agree that…
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A fountain of sanctimony
He may only have one daughter with a pretty standard name, but in many respects Lorenzo Fontana is the Italian answer to Jacob Rees Mogg. An ultracatholic, spewing hatred and spite, Fontana yesterday announced that as Minister for the Family (A Rees Moggian ministry if ever there was), it was incumbent on the government to…
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Foa and Foa jr
The committee for the Rai vetoed the election of Foa as chairman, but he refuses to accept the decision, as does Salvini – who by way of continuing the strange nepotism of Italian life, employs the young Leonardo Foa on his team of spreading his message. Daddy Foa is not embarrassed by the revelations. The…
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Rai, Foa and other three letter words.
Hopes that RAI (the italian BBC) may become politically independent are fading with the latest nominations to the board. The behemoth of Italian broadcasting has historically been divided up between the politcal parties – Rai 1 to the Christian Democrats,Rai 2 to the right and Rai 3 to the left. This has meant 3…
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To the wire and beyond.
It’s been a month of openings and closures: Di Maio for the M5S trying to get support for a government led by him, Salvini dithering as to whether to ditch BErlusconi and the PD dithering. And MAttarella the President has to try and cobble together a government or go back to the voters. It’s…