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Addio alle armi: il mio ultimo giorno di scuola
sdr Quando cala il sipario, è ora di lasciare il palcoscenico disse il primo ministro inglese Sir John Major nel 1997 quando venne sconfitto alle lezioni. 39 anni e 27 giorni dopo essere stato assunto come insegnante, il mio sipario si c... -
Non è per nulla dolce naufragare in questo mare
https://youtu.be/UOWLLGzB06E Mi è giunta voce che nei licei di qualche lontano paese culturalmente sottosviluppato può anche succedere questo durante l'orario scolastico. Mi dicono che laggiù pochi giorni orsono si pensava di aver già to... -
Il prof. Bingo e la fabbrica dei cretini – Booktrailer: video con testo
Caro lettore, caro libero pensatore, caro collega, caro genitore, caro studente, Se pensi che il mondo dell’istruzione goda oggi di buona salute, se pensi che la cosiddetta Buona Scuola sia un fiore all’occhiello della nostra società, se... -
Mediterranean Summer, chapter 3 – West Sicily, Monument Valley by the sea. In the name of the law?
You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kinds that makes Italy the c... -
World Cup 2018 – out of the cup, into the mud: corruption,violence, beauty in Italian football
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 ... -
‘Trattativa stato-mafia’ verdict: The Berlusconi government’s deal with the devil confirmed, good omen for his recent official ‘rehabilitation’
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... -
Mediterranean Summer, chapter 2 – Matera, the unbelievable ‘city of stones’: from dust to stardom
You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kinds that makes Italy the c... -
Mediterranean Summer, chapter 1- Malta: Christendom facing the Muslim dominion
You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kind that makes Italy the cr... -
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley (1958): Trump, Berlusconi and Brexit were already scaringly there
The essay Brave New World Revisited is an astonishing prediction of the XXI century's shrinking democracy in the West. Here is an annotated long extract I edited as part of my research work for Silvio Berlusconi's Italy. In times of... -
Clean Hands’ 25th anniversary: and they lived corruptly ever after
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...
