Italian Custom– category –

Looking forward to the American elections, part 1. The subtitle of my book about Berlusconi’s Italy reads The all-Italian story of the man who gave us Trump. In the book I write that “Trump may be more powerful, and more dangerous, than ...

Italian football: mirror of a society where no one pays Italian football is the mirror of our society: it means organized crime connections, both at top management level or at mafia and camorra rank; it means corruption, in match fixing,...

Ho letto sul Fatto Quotidiano del 17 agosto 2021 il bell’articolo di Selvaggia Lucarelli intitolato Noto, bellezza&monnezza. Ma se lo denunci t’insultano che descrive la sua vacanza da incubo in quella parte della Sicilia. Andando in...

Twenty-eight years later: Falcone and Borsellino are victims of Totò Riina's 'negotiating by bomb' strategy. Victims and martyrs indeed, and of course heroes. Nevertheless, I always have a bitter taste in my mouth every year at the celeb...

All the World is a Football Stage Italian football is the mirror of our society: it means organized crime connections, both at top management level or at mafia and camorra rank; it means corruption, in match-fixing, slush funds creation ...

In 2013 I wrote a whole chapter dedicated to the trattativa stato-mafia in my book about Berlusconi when just a few believed it had happened. Proud of it. Thank you Di Matteo is my first tweet after the sentence (trattativa stato-mafia m...

1992 is modern Italy’s D-year. It is the time of the death of the decadent First Republic and the birth of the more degenerate Second one, which is probably about to end these days. It is the year of Mani Pulite (Clean Hands, or Tangento...

On October 30, 2016 another tremendous earthquake hit central Italy again, the greatest one in the last decades of a series that started in August, killed almost 300 people and destroyed the cultural treasures of the medieval small towns...

Mafia Capitale: a shocking Christmas gift to Italian people As I write in the introduction of my book on Berlusconi's Italy, later that year [2014], we discovered that also Rome was not willing to stay behind [Milan and Venice, in w...

The police street violence at the Genoa G8  summit against the peaceful protesters and the raid at their headquarters - the Diaz school - in July 2001 is one of those episodes a country must be deeply ashamed of It was the Berlusconi gov...