Quick note to any lefties out there who are a little dismayed with Boris Johnson's poll lead: imagine how your Italian counterparts must feel. Not only did the nation decide to re-elect notorious right-winger Silvio Berlusconi this month - a move which provoked much international forehead-slapping - but now… read more…

So Silvio Berlusconi has swept to power in Italy once again, a decision which - thanks to his pro-US stance and general conservatism - has polarised both national and world opinion. Apart from, y'know, the vast majority of people who are more interested in watching Britains Got Talent than… read more…

It's a slippery slope, Silvio, and one already well traversed by the likes of Gorgeous George Galloway. Today the populist grandstanding; tomorrow the  celebrity TV shows, cat-suits and unseemly handbagging.… read more…