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One Casualty of Many, I Fear

An Italian teacher of English left this comment yesterday. It’s a sad story which paints a bleak picture of the teacher’s lot in Italy today.

Warring Ministers

In the right corner we have Italy’s Defence Minsiter, Ignazio La Russa. In the other right corner, donning his gloves, there is Italy’s Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni.

Pope and Politician Baiting

In the tumultuous world that is Italian politics, the show goes rumbling on. Di Pietro has been pointing out that the current group running the Living Museum are, in the main, relics. Or rather the products of regurgitation, and, as many can imagine, regurgitated food tends to leave a bad taste in your mouth. When […]

Berlusconi Speaks

Well, it looked like Berlusconi, sounded like the man himself, and as far as I know he has not, as yet, denied speaking, or saying what he said. What exactly did Italy’s esteemed prime minister go on about? Well two things were mentioned which caught my ear, if I heard correctly that is. Firstly, Berlusco […]

U-Turn, U Don’t Turn?!

After writing yesterday that Berlusconi had done an about turn on the criminalisation of illegal immigrants, I’ve read in today’s edition of Il Sole 24 Ore, that yesterday’s press reports hailing the Berlusco U-Turn were inaccurate. Mr Berlusconi has now accused the Italian press of ‘jumping the gun’ and miss-quoting what were no more than […]

U-Turn

NOTE: The contents of this post have been superseded! In my post entitled Cracking Down: the Rom Problem, illegal Immigration, and Crime, I looked at current attempts to resolve some of Italy’s long standing problems. Recently, to sort the illegal immigration problem out, some bright spark suggested criminalising illegal immigration. At first, Berlusconi went along […]

Italian Journalists Worried about Press Freedom

I have it on authority from a source in at least one major newspaper in Italy that journalists here are trembling at the thought of Berlusconi’s new reign. Apparently they are very worried that press freedom will be seriously curtailed under his rule. One suspects they are remembering what happened the last time the man […]

Ah, Election Time

You can tell it’s getting mighty close to election time here in the Living Museum. Berlusconi is on the attack. He’s using his usual ‘Veltroni is a commie’ jibe. It’s a shame he can’t come up with something a little more original. You know, something like possibly: ‘Veltroni’s a Martian’, or ‘Veltroni’s been regurgitated‘. Of […]

Cheesed Off

The rubbish crisis which appears to have made Naples infamous the world over, has now been joined by a mozzarella crisis.  A Buffalo Mozzarella crisis, to be more precise. As you may have seen from stories in the press the world over, this delicious cheese, one of Italy’s more prized delicacies, has become the subject […]