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The great and the good in Brussels and Rome have had a wizard wheeze – After years of spending hundreds of million of euros promoting the Made in Italy brand, and registering DOC and DOP products such as Parmeggiano Reggiano, olive oil, cheese, wine and even pizza,  Brussels has passed a piece of legislation in…

One is ex bloke Caitlyn Jenner and one is the repellent Daniella Santanche.  Bet you’ve never seen them in the same room.

Its the yearly festival of the banal and mediocre as the media desperate nonentities don their non A list frocks and parade round San Remo in the pretence of being important.   This year we have a list of uninteresting vacuous showbiz lovelies to make us feel inadequate, but despite their best attempts at ultimate…

A comune near Brescia has decided to add this to its name plate – ‘A town with western culture and a profoud Christian tradition.  If you who dont respect our culture and local traditions you are invited to leave.’  I hope it becomes a stop off point for all atheists, hindus, muslims and shinto monks…

I think Matteo’s getting a bit jealous of all the attention that the Pope’s been getting.  Poor Renzi announces a new law, with a slideshow, and then nothing – it never gets passed or signed, but does occupy the papers for 2 days with articels about the all the money he is about to lavish…

The Vatican paper bleated with undisguised glee about the ruins of Rome after the resignation of the mayor of the capital. Marino didnt jump, he was pushed by his own party, which as Marino says did everything short of planting cocaine in his pockets to get him out of office.  The question is why.  Is…

Poor Silvio, the forza Italia mps  are jumping ship and it looks like the overall number could fall to below 40 – the point when a party becomes irrelevant.  Silvio has cancelled the meeting for tomorrow because it appears ‘he has nothing useful to say’ – so its nice they’ve finally realised that .  Freshly back…

Notwithstanding the fine words of theEstablishment that the recovery is underway, the latest data show an Italy on the  brink of disaster.  More specifically the south of Italy which has been abandoned by all governments since the 90’s.  As of yesterday, what we have all known for sometime has become official.  Growth in the last…

What have these four got in common?  Well according to Don Silvio they are all victims of politically motivated crimes.  Or to be accurate the ancient saggy one is on a par with Socrates, Galileo and Jesus. To bolster his self esteem he has told us from on high, that he alone is responsible for the Expo…

The tribunal of Naples gave its sentence yesterday on the buying of a senator by Berlusconi.  It barely made the news, and this morning didnt even make the front pages.  Berlo has been sentenced to 3 years for paying 3 million euros to De Gregorio to cross the floor and join Forza Italia leading to…