Soapy Reality Show Italy

Forget Big Brother, Fear factor and Survivor.  The biggest and best reality show, a real combination of all those aforementioned reality shows, complete with an all-star cast, and a tanned gigolo, who loves to be surrounded by leggy lovelies, - as long as they are over eighteen - is … [Read more...]

Berlusconi the Paedophile?

The headline in today's edition of Libero, a centre-right Italian newspaper, is Tesi: Silvio Pedofilo - Thesis: Silvio Paedophile.The paper, which is pro-Berlusconi, was expressing its indignation over the insinuation made in Annozero, a political chat show on Italian television .Michele … [Read more...]

Meet Italy’s Hot New Ministers

Seeing as Berlusconi seems to want to put the glamour back into dull old Italian politics, I thought you might like to see the candidates he may be fielding for his next government.In the name of equal opportunities, all of the ministers will be female, although he, of course, will retain the … [Read more...]

For Silvio Berlusconi

To be fair, here is a little video for Silvio too!I don't think you'll guess what this, but it is thoroughly good.  Well I think so!Kind of appropriate for Silvio's wife Veronica too, when I come to think about it. … [Read more...]

Italian News Roundup

Plenty is going on in Italy at the moment, as always.This post is about a few stories in the Italian press, concerning Berlusconi, corruption,  bureaucracy, and paedophiles which have caught my eye, some of which are related to subjects I've mentioned in the past. … [Read more...]