Vulgar Berlusconi

Dal The Independent:
Margaret Thatcher was una bella gnocca, a "great piece of pussy", Silvio Berlusconi declared this week, eulogising his ideological heroine as he lashed out at Romano Prodi's government. The Italian media mogul has never shied away from the language of the public bar, but his choice of words to praise the former British prime minister was startling even by his standards. President François Mitterrand famously remarked of Baroness Thatcher that she had "the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe". Evidently Mr Berlusconi's attention was focused elsewhere.

In Italia è passata come la solita battuta. In Inghilterra, meno.
In Inghilterra è arrivata anche la notizia dello spionaggio da parte del Sismi di Pollari. E la notizia viene data in modo corretto:
Berlusconi's military intelligence chief accused of spying on judges.

The independent non si ferma alle accuse del CSM, ma fa un passo avanti: a chi giovava lo spionaggio? Per conto di chi agivano le persone di Pollari?
They included senior prosecutors and judges involved in trials relating to Mr Berlusconi in Milan, and in the tracking down and prosecution of powerful Mafiosi in Sicily. Mr Pollari put judges in Milan, Turin, Rome and Palermo under close observation, the report said, "with the object of neutralising their initiatives and minimising the consequences of their aggressive activities".

Insomma, all'estero ecco che non è più quella simpatica canaglia come viene dipinto ogni tanto dai media nazionali.