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Archive for January, 2009

Why buy Kakà when, for the same price, you could get a whole Serie A team?

Monday, January 26th, 2009

This monkey has only a passing interest in football, and so found little of interest in the rumours that Brazilian star Kakà was to leave Berlusconi’s AC Milan. Little of interest until browsing the latest from  La Voce, the online magazine from some of Italy’s leading economists. The site posted an intriguing article by Tito Boeri [...]

On the burning and defacing of the Israeli flag during pro-Palestinian protests in Rome

Monday, January 19th, 2009

As happened in various European cities over the last fortnight, in Italy a number of high-profile protests took place against the Israeli bombardment and invasion of Gaza which to-date has resulted in the death of up to 1,3001 Palestinians.
In cities like Rome, Bologna, Milan, and Florence, amongst others, parades took place that included the [...]

The mafia go online - Facebook still in the firing line

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Facebook gets more free publicity as the debate rages around the company’s decision to enforce strict guidlines regarding what can and can’t be shown in breastfeeding photos posted by users to their personal pages. A storm in a prurient teacup, according to many given the other issues cropping up with the popular social network platform, [...]