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The Silvio’s hit the fan
Hold on to your hats kids – Silvio has just been allowed to stand for parliament – the conviction of incandidatability having been quashed. In the midst of the negotiation between 5S and the Lega to form a government, Silvio has got a new lease of life – and will no doubt now form an…
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How to get ahead and influence people
Heres a story for any aspiring businessman. Modican chocolate is famous. Apparently. It is made to the Aztec recipe brought here by the Spanish. But its not. It is a chocolate made by the Modicani using a recipe brought here when Sicily was under Spanish dominion, and is a traditional folk food typical of…
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Democritically Italian
The situation afterthe President tutted and rolled his eyes yesterday hasnt changed. Nobody want to play with each other, and the M5S are taking the ball home. Matterella outlined the options – a neutral government to limp on till Xmas, or elections. It seems that 8 July is favourite of the Lega and…
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Talk to the hand,cos the face ain’t listening
On Monday Presdient Mattarella will hold last ditch talks to try and find a government – this is todays state of play. Lega – will form a government with anyone except Renzi and the PD PD – will form a government with Forza Italia Fratelli d’Italia – will form a government with FI and…
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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…
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Post seismic activity
Its 9 years ago today that an earthquake shattered Aquila. Reconstruction continues though the state sponsored reconstruction seems to have ground to a halt. Not one school has been rebuilt – all are housed in prefab structures. While private citizens – those with insurance or deep pockets have managed to rebuild, everyone else still lives…
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A wailing and gnashing of gums.
Don Silvio is not happy. He has been plotting complicated manouvres to keep his influence in parliament and put the mockers on the M5S, and it has come to nought. Last night it seems that all the carefully plotted alliances with the Lega of Salvini hit the fan. Silvio has been insisting on…
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20 days and counting
We’re coming up to three weeks since the election, and it’s all still a mess. THere have been approaches, rebuffs and silences, and we are still no wiser as to whether the election result will actually give us a government. Today is the day when the newly elected mp’s vote for the president of the…
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Some are more equal than others
Don Steptoe, from the lofty height of Arcore, pronounces that if the allies in the centre right coalition arent all equal, then all agreements are off. Now while Silvio was doing the rounds of his tv stations in the run up to the election it was quite apparent that he, as undoubted winner and the largest party, would…
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Exit stage left followed by a Berl..
Renzi has been ditched by the electorate and by his party. His retirement to be a ‘simple senator’ has lasted a weekend, and is already plotting his comeback. Convinced that his ignominious exit is purely down to the M5S he has started a complicated mission behind the scenes to make sure the Pd doesnt side…