The Italian Disaster

Perry Anderson, 22 May 2014

... was only a little more realistic than to believe the patronage of Craxi would leave no mark on Berlusconi. Other reminders of the past were no less striking. In the summer of 2012 it emerged that Napolitano was intervening to block potential interrogation of Nicola Mancino, Christian Democrat minister of the interior in 1992 when the Palermo ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... a death, a very public one, and to ignore it, or let it go in a cloud of unknowing, would fail to mark their attempts at survival. It is hard to think about, but these people all went up to the top of the tower looking for a chance. Your browser does not support html5 video. 'Raymond was looking after them'.Most of the stories are hard to bear. The ...