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So the new Monti goverment has been given the thumbs up by all the other parties, the Church and the Unions – so we’re stuffed.  Monti must have spun a line to get them all on board and now it will all unravel and nothing will get done.  The choice of ‘technical’ ministers is bothersome…

Mr Toad resigned and some people said good riddance.  Stung by their ungratefulness mr B has decided that he won’t gracefully retire but will fight on.   It is another proof that times machines and the Terminator aren’t necessaru when you have a number of TV stations and newspapers as your personal fief.  Mr Toad…

It rained for forty days and forty nights, and all that was on the earth perished and the BTP spread rose to 491, when a dove sent out by the senile Noah gave everyone to think he was going to hand over control of the ark to his acolyte, and the waters fell sharply, and…

To drag Italy kicking and screaming into the modern age, the EU is politely insisting that there is a reform of the labour laws, ostensibly allowing companies to sack their employees.  Its not that simple, but the essence of the difference between contracts for a determined time and a undetermined time is the great dream…

Matteo Renzi – there’s a name for the future.  Hark back to the heady days of New Labour pre 97, the days when in the death throes of John Major’s, Duncan Smiths and Hagues caring Britain, Tony Blair seemed like a breath of fresh air – someone who could really change the sorry state of…

The owner of Todds shoes took out a full page in the press yesterday, with an open letter to politicians, nearly all of whom are furious at his words, above all the left, who are so out of touch with reality that they assume they are immune from criticism.   Had I enough money I…

Here’s a good’un… The comune of Palermo has a squad of snow clearers – who are paid handsomely when snow covers the ground.  One of their number, fearful for climate change presumably has wished so wholeheartedly for snow that it falls only for him. This particular snow clearer presents his hours to the comune –…

There is a little known rule that the worst chancellors should resemble characters from films about minor public schools.  Italy excels, so much so that the current incumbent is a dead ringer for the savage Geoffrey Howe.   Mr Tremonti is the face of the crisis for Italy – it helps that he is at…

Tomorrow, its this charmer who will make the news here.  its Saverio Romano, a centre right MP who is currently awaiting trial for his mafia connections.   Toto Riina had his name and phone number on his little ‘bigliettini’ when he was caught and 4 ‘pentiti’ have said that he was undoubtedly toto’s man in…

Not a good day for Berlusconi yesterday.  He was meant to be in court in the Mills/Mediaset case, but didnt turn up.  He hadnt actually told then he wouldnt be going, and therefore the judges got a bit peeved. In the Tarantino blackmail case, instead of Mr B being the injured party, it now seems…