“My cat scratched me in the eye a few months ago. It was pretty bad”, said my colleague as we stood outside a bar one evening in Amsterdam last week, “But, you know, he’s had a hard time. He was an orphan…
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A few months ago I took my nine-year old daughter to see Fiorentina play Inter Milan. It was her first time going to a big match and, as we walked to the Artemio Franchi stadium in the suburbs of Florence…
Emergency over. Nothing to see here folks. Move on. That was more or less the message on Tuesday morning from Italy’s main newspapers. They were talking about the supposedly poor results of the Movimento…
Plamen Oresharski. You might not have heard of him. I certainly hadn’t until a few days ago. But, according to reports, he may become the next unelected, non-party prime minister in Europe. Or the “Bulgarian…
We’ve never been to one or the other, but we presume that Silvio Berlusconi’s and Bob Katter’s house parties are pretty different affairs. Their political parties are another matter, however. The former…
Margaret Thatcher, Baroness of Kesteven, has died of a stroke aged 87. The first female prime minister of the United Kingdom, Thatcher held office between 1979 and 1990 before being removed in an internal…
“Paris is worth a mass”, replied my friend, citing Henry IV’s probably apocryphal comment on his conversion to Catholicism in order to break the religious impasse in sixteenth-century France. She was explaining…
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