Italiafile – for italophiles.

So Uncle Steptoe has been plotting in his mansion and has come up with a winning formula.  Relaunch Forza Italia and call it…. Forza Italia 2.0 – like some shitty app you wish you had never downloaded.  Anyway this stunning idea Steptoe thinks will save the world.  HE is ditching most of the PDL –…

A deeply depressing story yesterday, a 15 year old boy in Rome hanged himself because of the homophobic bullying he suffered at his lice (grammar school).  It seems that not only his classmates, who set up a facebook page called I wear pink trousers to ridicule the lad, but also his teacher provided the final…

There’s a fascinating story going on in Italy at the moment, which has yet to be picked up by the foreign press.  And it could be vast…. Heres what happened, though it only came out a couple of days ago. On the 16 October the personal accountant of Berlusconi was ‘kidnapped’ in his house by…

Marina  and Marina, which of course makes Piersilvio Captin Troy Tempest, and their father ….. a mysteron:

and they’re taking aim – Friday is the date when the fan will be hit full on, the reason being Uncle Steptoe whose nose is decidedly out of joint because he’s not important any more. To be fair, the entire Pdl is a bit miffed, because they have been dallying around the regional elections which…

For the umpteenth time parliament has thrown out  a law  which would put acts of homophobia on a par with sexism and racism.   Bizarrely on the same day that France voted to allow same sex marriage, and Spain retroactively condoned the 23000 gay marriages already celebrated, Italy (or rather the PDL, Lega Nord and…

Antonio di PIetro is the leader of Italia dei Valori – a left of centre party set up in the wake of Tangentopoli (the bribery scandal) that brought down the last republic and led to the rise of Berlusconi.  Di Pietro was one of the magistrates who brought various lynch pins of Tangentopoli to justice,…

Amidst all the doom and gloom and jockeying for position in the high echelons of government, there is a bit – admittedly  a tiny bit – of good news. Liquidfeedback – is embodied by the pirate party of Italy – and who are about to have a voice in parliament.  It is possibly the most…

I watched Berlusconi’s wax effigy hold a press conference the other day – surreal stuff. A 90 min diatribe against his enemies, wounded pride, and a total lack of any grasp of reality.  Hand literally wringing, sweaty and slurred of speech, Mr Toad became the vision of a man who has tipped over the edge…