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Free Camping in Italy

The incidents concerning attacks on German and Dutch tourists in Italy are sweeping the world, and these appalling happenings have been handled rather insensitively by the Italian authorities, as a read of the post on Beppe Grillo’s blog will tell you.

Recent Italian News Roundup

Well, I’m back here in Milan after my short and not particularly holiday like trip down to Genova. Anyway, I’ll resist boring you with the details and recount some much more interesting items which have been mentioned in the Italian news. Soldiers on the Streets Despite the fact that Italy, with the exception of a […]

More Proof that the UK is Sicker than Italy

The Great British Bulldog has heart problems. After writing a post entitled The UK is Sicker than Italy, alas, I then read of this recent and particularly horrific crime in the UK. The title of the BBC story says it all ‘Horror descends on quiet street‘. The story seems to indicate that the do gooders […]

Old Tricks

Berlusconi is up to his old tricks once more, and the stability of the current Italian government means he can do just about what he likes. In his latest ‘furbo‘ move, and on the pretext of reducing the admittedly snails pace sloth of the Italian courts, the Berlusconi government is trying to introduce a piece […]

Italy – From Bad, to Much Worse

It’s been an eventful but tragic week in Italy, but it looks as though things here are going to go from bad to worse, much worse. Work Related Deaths Quite a number of people have, alas, lost their lives at work this week. First, there was an incident in Sicily which led to the death […]

Telephone Tapping Extravaganza

In some ways, one can almost understand why Berlusco and Co want to reduce the level of telephone tapping which goes on in the Living Museum. Well, I can now, after having heard the number phone tapping operations  which took place during 2007 in Italy on the news this evening. Over in the CIA, FBI, […]

The complex Complex – The San Raffaelle, Milan

Those who live in Milan will know that the San Raffaelle is a huge hospital complex which sits on the doorstep of the Milano 2 residential area, which, incidentally, one Silvio Berlusconi created. Well, the staff of part of this complex have been in the news here recently, and two senior doctors, working in a […]

Cracking Down: the Rom Problem, illegal Immigration, and Crime

Recently the news here in Italy has been carrying reports on what amounts to a crack down on the Rom or gypsies who occupy sites in most of the major cities around the peninsula. If you’d like the know a little about the difference between Rom and Romanian, then click on the link to a […]

Mugging in Milan

This post has been updated to make it more accurate – Alex Roe, 22.02.1008. I was rather worried to learn from the guy I work with that he had been mugged a couple of weeks back. As if mugging in any circumstances were not bad enough, this case is worse. You see, this guy was […]