Mr B, Italy's charismatic prime minister is probably not a very happy chappy. A recent article in Italian news magazine L'Espresso concerned, amongst other things, telephone conversations which took place between Italy's current prime minister and a RAI TV executive last year.Apparently, these … [Read more...]
Buy Il Sole 24 Ore this Saturday!
June 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
If you would like to know about another big Italian scandal which is brewing, then purchasing a copy of this Saturday's edition of Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper is a must. It will obviously help if you can read Italian.I can't say any more, because I don't want to land someone I know in trouble. … [Read more...]
Is Italy’s Legal System about to Crumble?
June 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Those of who have been following Italian news will know that an amendment to Italian law, which has now past both houses of the Italian parliament, will effectively put trials concerning serious offences committed before 30th June 2002 on hold for one year.This means that, based on very rough … [Read more...]
The World Goes Phut!
June 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
'Phut' is a lovely onomatopoeic little word, and, if you believe the conCERNs of some people, this is what could happen if the whizzy new physicists' plaything, the Large Hadron Collider, ends up producing a black hole, which then proceeds to suck us all in.Apparently, an appropriately named, and … [Read more...]
Zero Tolerance
June 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I watched an interesting fly on the wall type documentary the other day entitled 'Tolleranza Zero' - 'Zero Tolerance' (Yes, at times Italian and English are extremely similar).This program was shown on La7, one of Italy's public TV channels, and was about, as you might expect, how the Italian … [Read more...]
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