This man is still pulling the strings in Sicilian politics and is currently being courted by Salvini's Lega.

This man is still pulling the strings in Sicilian politics and is currently being courted by Salvini's Lega.

26 September 1991 on live TV Totò Cuffaro, later Governor of Sicily, launches an attack apparently on Giovanni Falcone (he claims it was aimed at another judge). He's managed to get all videos of the episode removed from social media, except this one. He served 7 years for aiding & abetting mafia.

For the second time in a month Libyan "Coast Guard" patrol boats, donated by Italy, open fire with machine guns on NGO vessels rescuing migrants in international waters. In both cases, fortunately, nobody was injured.

remember v well moving here and being extremely creeped out by the sheer number of cameras *everywhere* in London, so I do find it amusing that while that's somehow fine, a piece of plastic that confirms who you are and has existed in Europe for ages is somehow BEYOND THE PALE

The Italian Navy now has two frigates accompanying the Global Sumud Flotilla following a series of Israeli drone attacks.

Following the latest Israeli drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla heading towards Gaza, Defence Minister Crosetto announces that an Italian Navy frigate has been sent to provide any necessary assistance.

Quote of the week from Matteo Salvini: "only useless people are not divisive. I'm divisive like Trump, Berlusconi and Jesus Christ."

The Messina Strait bridge project is in trouble in the Italian Court of Auditors. The court has given the government 20 days to respond to doubts regarding a series of issues linked to financial sustainability, observance of EU law & environmental impacts.

I've been to a wedding this past weekend, and bar one couple, every single English person who was married to a foreign national does not live in Britain because the Home Office made it impossible for them WHAT IS THE YOUR TAKEAWAY FROM THIS? "OPEN BORDERS"? "MASS IMMIGRATION"?

If you don't know the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, you don't know the meaning of the word 'courage'.

If you don't know the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, you don't know the meaning of the word 'courage'.

It is really weird how Meloni and Salvini continually try to exploit the murder of Charlie Kirk to attack the left in a country where virtually nobody had ever heard of him before, very few care even now and nobody will remember him very shortly.

It is really weird how Meloni and Salvini continually try to exploit the murder of Charlie Kirk to attack the left in a country where virtually nobody had ever heard of him before, very few care even now and nobody will remember him very shortly.

Caro Vannacci, quelli della X MAS erano dei perdenti, proprio come lei.

It's been 254 days since Meloni found the time to hold a press conference and answer proper questions on serious issue but she found the time to appear on a popular Sunday afternoon show today and answer questions about food.

Volevano creare il panico? Facendo ritardare i voli? Cioè, facendolo sembrare un giorno normale?

Sicilians who support Lega. Possibly the dimmest people on earth.

"When we die, we won't be asked whether we believed, but whether we were believable." Judge Rosario Livatino, murdered by the mafia on 21 September 1990.

For someone who loves Britain so much, he is hardly ever there.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being deported twice in 24 hours - first from Colombia, then from Panama - because he’s deemed a national security threat, just a week after he led a march calling for migrants to be deported, is the kind of schadenfreude we can all savour.

Ladies and gentlemen! The Italian Interior Minister proudly announces the huge success of the Italian detention centres in Albania, fully justifying the enormous costs sustained as, finally, to loud trumpet fanfares, one person is repatriated.

Italian F35s intercept Russian jets over Estonia. Who was Salvini rooting for?

Italian F35s intercept Russian jets over Estonia. Who was Salvini rooting for?

Ladies and gentlemen! The Italian Interior Minister proudly announces the huge success of the Italian detention centres in Albania, fully justifying the enormous costs sustained as, finally, to loud trumpet fanfares, one person is repatriated.

Day by day, step by step, minor abuse by minor abuse, the US is sliding towards fascism.

The Charlie Kirk amendment invalidates all the others, as and when it is convenient.

Pretty much everybody who isn't fascist is anti-fascist, so you'll have your work cut out.

Large parts of the Sicilian city of Caltanissetta have had no water supply for 10 days. As the city council seems to be unable to resolve the issue the local Bishop has called an emergency meeting with all the local authorities.

If Charlie Kirk had lived in biblical times he would have been denouncing Jesus as a dangerous far-left activist.

Tonight on Italian TV channel La7 Chief Public Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri presents the first of his four "Lessons on mafia", dealing with 'ndrangheta (the others are on Camorra, the cocaine trade, the dark web & cryptocurrency). Not to be missed. Meloni’s government is not happy for some reason.

Tonight on Italian TV channel La7 Chief Public Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri presents the first of his four "Lessons on mafia", dealing with 'ndrangheta (the others are on Camorra, the cocaine trade, the dark web & cryptocurrency). Not to be missed. Meloni’s government is not happy for some reason.

A truly Sicilian story. A fascist investigative journalist working for a communist newspaper, "disappeared" by the mafia on 16th September 1970.

Three years ago the Calabria Regional government (FI-FdI-Lega) took on 497 Cuban doctors to help resolve chronic issues in local health services. Bit by bit things are falling apart as the doctors move to work in the private sector, in northern Italy, abroad, or just disappear.

Mafia-type threats against journalists now.

A truly Sicilian story. A fascist investigative journalist working for a communist newspaper, "disappeared" by the mafia on 16th September 1970.

If you want to dismantle networks that favour political violence you should definitely start by banning the NRA.

After Italian Defence Minister Crosetto warns Italy would be unable to defend itself from an attack by Russia, Deputy PM Salvini says Italy doesn't need to worry about Russian tanks but about criminals and terrorists crossing the Mediterranean as migrants.

In Italy we have no qualms about calling out fascism because we know what it is and how to recognise it. In Britain fascism has always been seen as something that could only happen elsewhere. Well, now the fascists are among you, openly, proudly even. It's time to wake up and push back.

In Italy we have no qualms about calling out fascism because we know what it is and how to recognise it. In Britain fascism has always been seen as something that could only happen elsewhere. Well, now the fascists are among you, openly, proudly even. It's time to wake up and push back.

At 1.30 a.m., in the night between 13 & 14 September 1943, the various units of Italian troops (12,000 in all), mostly conscripts of the Acqui Division, occupying the Greek island of Cephalonia, receive an unusual message from their Commander, General Antonio Gandin [Warning: long thread] >> 1

247 days have passed since Italian PM Giorgia Meloni held her last press conference.

If you want an accurate depiction of the people who attended the far-right march in London yesterday, just listen to this song "The Few" by Billy Bragg. He wrote it in the 1980s about football hooligans but it is still valid today.

If you want an accurate depiction of the people who attended the far-right march in London yesterday, just listen to this song "The Few" by Billy Bragg. He wrote it in the 1980s about football hooligans but it is still valid today.

Pope Francis famously made his first trip as Pope to Lampedusa to show support for migrants and always avoided meeting Salvini for the same reason. The new Pope met Salvini two weeks ago and it must have had an effect as he now announces his intention to visit Lampedusa.

"The wasted seed of the Bulldog breed" as Billy Bragg described them.

This is Nazi "final solution" stuff.

The Italian right trying to use the killing of Charlie Kirk to stir things up against the left when most Italians had never heard of Kirk before and care little about what happens in the US. Another shooting? Shrug shoulders at the crazy Yanks.

Fox News employing the "strategy of tension."

And the effects will be a lot worse. US institutions look much more vulnerable and fragile than Italian ones.