Former Senator Severino Citaristi has just died in his home town of Bergamo, northern Italy, aged 85. He was very little known outside Italy, and, until 1992, even in his own country; but his passing has been met with unanimous grief from politicians and journalists, for he was personally beloved even by political opponents ( Read more... )

Unfortunately he was interrupted before he was able to do much towards this praiseworthy goal, and is now facing some time at the expense of the Italian taxpayer.

Happy new year.

Certainly some minds do, although I am not sure whether I would characterize them as great. In order not to raise national taxes, Messrs. Blair and Brown have stealthily caused local taxes (based on property value) to grow by as much as 300%. And now news comes from Italy that Mr.Berlusconi and his unlovely government, who claim to be cutting ( Read more... )