Camilla Ferranti

Here is another Berlusconi selection for the European Parliament - as if you had to ask. Berlusconi's wife filed for divorce - finally - over this and comments made by Noemi Letizia at her 18th birthday party two-weeks ago which Silvio attended, to everybody's surprise including Noemi, and gave her a gold-necklace ("When Papi Silvio calls I come!" she gushes). Noemi also a babe and one can see her plump rump on the Internets. I guess she is yet too young for European politics but give her a couple of years, unless she does something against the grain like get a degree or, horror, experience. So the divorce: let us not think that wife Veronica Lario did not know what she was in for. Born in Bologna, Lario was a hot actress in low budget films but retired after meeting Silvio. Oh, and she is twenty years his junior. So Berlusconi consistent. All of this would prove less amusing if we were not talking about the longest-serving Italian Prime Minister since il Duce was hung to bleed in '43. By my count there have been 35 between the war and now. So Berlusconi doing something right or, at least, he owns Fininvest which controls three (out of seven) national television channels, various digital television channels, and some of the larger-circulation news magazines together totalling about half the Italian market. Think his voice is heard?

Madeleine wants to contribute a letter to this blog. I tell her: type a letter, any letter, and here she goes (after a long hmmm): J