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Goat, goat, goat.
Rentagob Vittorio Sgarbi has decided to run as the President of Sicily. Trumpism has arrived in the Mezzogiorno. not content with going on any old tv programme to deride and insult people, and seemingly unhappy with his legacy as Mayor of Salemi he has decided that Sicily needs him. We should be…
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Up your ius soli
It’s been hard to work up any bile against a country that I have elected to be my home recently. it’s been much easier to stare open mouthed at the telly watching Teresa May and Donald Trump fuck up the entire notion of western civilisation. Once I stopped lauging myself stupid, and reached the ‘is…
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rock paper scissione
The PD is about to implode Corbyn like and follow the same downward trajectory and its mainly the fault of this man: Massimo D’Alema ex PM and perennial politico who goes around with the airs and graces of a saint and a general holier than thou expression. It all comes down to Renzi so…
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Gentilonchi?
This is the new Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni – he’s been in the job for 2 months but nobody knows who he is. While he presides over the disintegration of the Partito Democratico, an economy with growth lower than Greece, and A San Remo winning song that is sub telly tubbies we are told…
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History Repeating
There’s been a shift of emphasis, seeing that the Berlo tragedy is now being played out across the pond. Italians are all rather placid about the Yuge handed one, becuase they’ve seen it all before. Blatant lies which are denied the following day notwithstanding video evidence, cries of politicised judges, laws ad personam, presenile…
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Two sides of the coin
Two news stories today that show the best and worst of Italy. In Calabria a 13 year old girl was systematically raped by a gang of 8 young men over three years, and her parents knew. They chose to do nothing because the shame could mean they would have to move to a different…
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rabbits ears democracy
I have a fundamental problem with regard to the Italian democracy. It isnt. Most italians I know wax lyrical about the Italian constitution and then dont know what it says. Nor that it is widely ignored until someone wants to change it, and then it becomes all important. Yesteday the Senate decided to save the…
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AA or AA
Looking like a mafioso this is the man who could bring down Renzi, and all because of a tiny little ‘mixup’. It is in fact Alessandro Alfano chubby little brother of the Home Office minister, Angellino Alfano and it seems there has been a bit of family influence at work. Alessandro, it now appears, got…
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The sacred cow of Santa Croce
Recognise this? Its the B&B Montalbano, booked up for most of the year, on the basis that you would be walking in the footsteps of Luca Zingaretti alias Inspector Montalbano, because it’s his pad in the tv series. Many discussions and phone calls have taken place on the terraces, but this week it’s all gone…
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While Rome burns
The centre right has fallen into complete disarray over their choice of mayor. After a good deal of oohing and aahing Meloni threw her hat into the ring, which meant that various politicians all said that her place was at home being a mother, which caused an outcry from most women. Berlo decides…