In a pre-recorded interview tonight on Newsnight [BBC2 10:30pm] Jeremy Paxman asks former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi whether he had really called Angela Merkel. “An unfuppable lard arse”.
Cue: omerta.
Meanwhile in the Corte Suprrema di Cassazione;
A dancing Carabiniere, moments before the judge of the day upheld a tax fraud sentence of four years in jail for Berlusconi.
He does a great macerana.
via la Repubblica
Future Italian prime-minister, lothario and statue-magnet, Silvio Berlusconi in the 1970s, looking every inch the thrusting (fnar) young industrialist.
But what’s that on the desk behind him?