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All of Toad’s trials have come to a grinding halt as he has been hospitalised with an itchy eye.  For over a week poor Uncle Steptoe has been lashed to a trolley in the corridor of some underfunded hospital neglected by nursing staff and left to dehydrate in a draughty corridor.  Oh no – he’s…

Silvio went on telly last night – obviously on his channels – to mobilise the faithful to protest against the democratic cancer of the judiciary.  Nice.  To keep us up to speed with his legal cases he decided to announce his verdict on everything. MEdiaset – he accused of avoiding 3 million in tax.  Apparently…

So Grillo’s insistence that as the largest single party in parliament, but 3rd in the coalition stakes, it should be Grillo that forms a government seems to be taking hold. Slowly.  From the derision that met his election, we now have various gods of industry saying that actually, well, they voted M5S.  Napolitano, the president,…

So there we have it, the usual mix of wholly unsuitable allies and a country that wont be governable.  30% to the left, 30% to the right, 10 to the middle and 25% to the 5 Stelle ‘chuck’em in the ocean’ party.   That means casualties – and Silvio will be thrilled that Fini, his…

I am respecting the electoral silence, even though Dom Steptoes is incapable of keeping his mouth shut and used a Milan press conference to slag off his enemies again.   It’s almost as if Toad knew that the Inter-Milan derby would be this weekend when he pushed for the elections to be held at the…

So we’re back to square one – the nasty Minzolini – remember the boss of TG1 who spent 60 grand on his company credit card on stuff for himself, and then got absolved because it didnt say that he couldnt use public money to go shopping, now wants his job back.   As we are…

Luciana Littizzetto is the Italian Eddie Izzard – one of the very few comics who a) makes you laugh without doing a fart joke (bear in mind that in Italy we can watch Benny Hill on tv every day somewhere) and b) confronts ‘themes’.  This year, much to the chagrin of Berlusconi, she is hosting…

The Pope resigns  – has given us one of the most revisionist histories in a short time as I have ever seen.  IN less than 24 hours the Vatican has managed to rewrite history in its entirety and find lots of men and women in costumes to say that it is all perfectly normal for…

So the Monte dei Paschi – the worlds oldest bank – also looks to be one of the most corrupt.   As of today the management are going to be investigated for fraud – it seems they didnt tell the shareholders what they were up to when they bought the bank of Antonveneta – which…

So Nick O’mericano isnt a candidate – and the PDL trumpet their ‘clean list’ – except that still in there are Cosentino’s men, Minzolini (ex head of RAI1 in the middle a court case for using the company credit card for personal use), and various other people with legal problems. Not to mention Berlo himself,…