If there is a distant civilisation scanning the night sky for signs of intelligent life let us hope that when they scan this sector that they do not stumble across Italian television broadcasts. It would throw them into a state of existential despair.
Italian TV is roughly divided into the following categories.
Infomercials shot with a fairly good quality mobile phone camera plugging the local DIY store or car dealership.
Local news programmes which go into great detail about local Romanians nicking copper from derelict factories. They have much less to say about the all pervasive corruption which is the hallmark of local politics.
Worse than any of this is the “entertainment”shows which seem to corral about 15% of the country’s population into TV studios on any given evening. These are always fronted by a lecherous middle aged man who is accompanied by one or more young women who are obliged to perform activities holding out the promise to viewers that they will flash their knickers. This is interspersed with anecdotes about children dying of cancer and cheery singalongs. Stuff like this is on all night every night. It makes you embarrassed to belong to the human race.
I had hoped to post a photo of a bona fide Sicilian weeping statue housed in a modern cathedral Brehznev would have thought a bit too Stalinist brutalist but you aren’t allowed to take pictures.
Internet access permitting there will be news of trouble in Berlusconi’s ranks in the next couple of days.
Liam redux 
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