Silvio Berlusconi has always vaunted two major talents - an ability to control the media (both his own - a substantial slice of tv and print - as well as those supposedly independent), and a masterful ability to keep together seemingly shakey partnerships. It’s against this backdrop that his second wife, Veronica Lario, dropped a [...]
It was without a doubt a media coup, when Berlusconi announced on Friday that he would be pushing forward a special decree to intervene in the case of Eluana Englaro. And, not just a media coup, for some.
The Englaro case been in the media spotlight for months, since a definitive sentence was handed out by [...]
It was, in a sense, a political exorcism. At least Fabrizio Cicchitto, a leading member of Berlusconi’s Popolo della Libertà would have had us believe.
On the 14th of may, at the first sitting of the newly elected parliament, Cicchitto (who in 1981 admitted to being a member of the Masonic Lodge P2), speaking for the [...]
Much sniggering has been done internationally (and here in Italy) at the recent judgement by the Corte di Cassazione (or supreme court) that grasping one’s ‘attributi’ in public is an offence punishable by a fine.
In a country where it’s a common superstition that grasping one’s ‘palle’ wards off bad-luck, this is bad news for many. [...]