Publication: La Stampa

31.12.10 Publication: La Stampa

Journalists often think news is defined in terms of days or even minutes. Politicians seem far-sighted if they think in weeks, or visionary if they can see as...

03.12.10 Publication: La Stampa

The good news about the latest Wikileaks disclosures of American diplomatic reports on Silvio Berlusconi is that they take the focus away from the president of...

24.11.10 Publication: La Stampa

It is tempting to regard the firing of artillery shells at an island on the other side of the world as unimportant. That temptation is especially strong when...

07.11.10 Publication: La Stampa

The global economic crisis of 2007-09 has done us all a disservice in more ways than just the obvious ones of having caused rising unemployment, falling living...

04.11.10 Publication: La Stampa

So America´s mid-term Congressional elections have, as expected, brought a dramatic defeat for the Democratic Party in general and Barack Obama in particular,...

21.10.10 Publication: La Stampa

It is an extraordinary gamble: cutting 500,000 public-sector jobs, in a programme of dramatic fiscal retrenchment, with ministries’ budgets being cut by an...

09.10.10 Publication: La Stampa

They are not always known for their bravery. Too often, they follow fashionable sentiment, in a rather weak way. But this year the Nobel Peace Prize Committee...

04.10.10 Publication: La Stampa

As Barack Obama gets down to the serious task of campaigning for Democratic Party candidates in an effort to stem his party’s losses in America’s mid-term...

14.09.10 Publication: La Stampa

It has been flattering to us British that so often during the Italian debate about politics and the electoral law, our system has been praised. It was even...