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The recent release of thousands of US diplomatic messages by Wikileaks has, inevitably, caused some controversy. The revelations about what the US thinks of Berlusconi, however, have been interesting. The Italian Prime Minister is accused of being very close to Vladimir Putin. The two have held frequent bilateral meetings and even holiday together. This worried […]
November 27, 2010
Help! Suddenly journalism has become all mathematical and complicated. Apart from the fact that I had a lecture on the ins and outs of council tax this week which really made my head hurt, I was also told about data journalism, i.e. the crunching of numbers until something interesting pops out. Data journalism is the […]
November 21, 2010
Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, said yesterday that “The participation of younger generations, of workers, of citizens, in political life is fundamental”. He went on to warn of the risks of such a separation between the political classes and the people they are supposed to represent. But when he’s 85 and first entered politics in 1992, […]
November 20, 2010
Joanna Geary got us all thinking in our online journalism lecture this week. The web development editor of The Times asked us why it was that we chose journalism and while I decided that it was because it satisfied my natural curiosity, what Joanne told us this week was that looking after that community that […]
November 18, 2010
It’s just about made it into the British news, but on December 14 the Italian government, led. of course, by Silvio Berlusconi, will face a confidence vote. The reasons for this are protracted, complicated, and not particularly well covered in Britain. In July this year, the government was stripped of its majority when the Speaker […]
November 13, 2010
Here’s a map of Penarth, my ward for the next year, where I’ve pointed out some points of interest.
November 5, 2010
I found attending a talk given by Adam Tinworth of Reed Business Information (RBI) to be hugely inspiring stuff in the week when I’m starting up a politics blog with some of my colleagues. RBI is moving more and more of their titles online, and Adam is responsible for their strategy in this regard. He […]
Damian Fantato 
November 29, 2010
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