Renzi has been ditched by the electorate and by his party. His retirement to be a ‘simple senator’ has lasted a weekend,...
First impasse the post
Under the convoluted and hugely undemocratic rules the election of Italian deputies and senators has thrown up a whole bunch of usual...
Portillo moments
Rehabilitated thanks to a copy of Bradshaw and a dubious choice of pastels, few people now remember the Portillo moment in the Blair...
Erroneous tags
As the results continue to dribble in, Italy has woken up to a bit of a mess. The 5 star is the biggest party at 30%, the right the...
The point of the moral compass
One of Berlusconi’s tv channels ran a story about the 5 Star movement ‘stealing money’ which all the press and tv...
All the people all the time
Don Silvio is promising everything to everyone this election. Yesterday, not content with flat tax, free money for everyone, and no...
Back into the swamp
Elections are a rum do. Onthe one hand we have the ancient Silvio promising (repromising) the Bridge across the straits of Messina...
A bag of sh!te?
It’s going to be a busy few months – the powers that be have decided that there will be a national election on 4 March, and...
All in a day’s work
So Musumeci and the vast coalition of the right won Sicily, with a combination of disparate groups who are already disagreeing. The 5...
PIcture it Sicily, 2017
The count has started to determine who will be the new president of Sicily. IT seems that it’s a run off between Musumeci for...