The BBC has just rejected a proposal to erect a statue in honor of George Orwell outside its new London headquarters. The reason? As the nation's public broadcaster, the BBC is ...
In Britain, there are ghosts everywhere. Here in Italy, there are none. Our house is nevertheless infestata (haunted), according to my wife"not by ghosts but by ...
Everywhere I drive in the Italian countryside I come across fields that are now desecrated by ugly solar-power plants. These silver constructions would be aesthetically ...
I am an alcoholic, or what is called an alcoholic, and I still am an alcoholic, so they say, even though I gave up booze nearly one year ago. Sure, I drank dangerous amounts of ...
Journalists call August the "silly season" because according to legend there is no news and so their job requires them to use even more fantasy than usual. But the global ...
My wife has a little house in Lido di Dante, a beautiful beach just south of Ravenna where Dante himself died in 1321. The beach is three miles of unspoiled sand dunes and pine ...
Yet again, a Catholic country has won a major international soccer tournament. Why are Catholics so good at kicking around soccer balls but so bad at running their countries? Is ...
Italian communists always wanted a revolution in Italy, but I do not think that this is quite what they had in mind: A Chinese man has just bought the bar at their party ...
This evening in the European soccer championships" quarterfinals, the country where I was born in 1958 (England) plays the country where I have lived since 1998 (Italy). ...
I was wading through the daily mire of newspaper headlines the other day about the deepening euro crisis and the latest rich or famous Italian to be arrested when I saw this: ...
That slogan on pop star Madonna's T-shirt "Italians do it better!" may date back to the 1980s but it is still popular with Italian men. They often deploy it to impress ...
The uomo nuovo in Italian politics is a professional comic called Beppe Grillo, whose slogan is "Vaffanculo!" (Fuck off!) He's opposed to everything, it seems, except wind ...
"You"re so lucky living in Italy," people tell me. "The food's so divine." Oh no, it isn"t. Italian food is tedious"so tedious that I gave up going to ...
Europe's crisis is existential and economic. Here in Italy the talk is of suicide. Hardly a day passes without an Italian in financial trouble killing himself. (They are all ...
Thank God for the Italian spring. It reminds me that there is more to life than the Italians and the euro. Yesterday I drove out of the provincial city of Forlì in the ...
Each year on April 25, Italians commemorate Italy's 1945 liberation with yet another public holiday. Any sane person would think this ought to involve honoring those who did the ...
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