And following up from that...

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...I wish the Americans among you to be freed from both moronic extremes - stupid conservatives are as bad as the moral imbeciles they oppose - and the rest of us a civilized, peaceful and useful New Year. The right moral path may not always be clear, but it never passes through ignorance, self-admiration and contempt for your neighbours.

Happy 2006, everyone!

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Cosidering that Italian politics, in the last twenty years, have been deliberately poisoned by the elixir of hatred brewed and fed to the masses by the party now in government, I think I can say I know something about the uselessness of hatred in politics.

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Actually, not only the uselessness of hatred in politics, but so often in other things.

And hatred, most unfortunately, is far more debilitating than just useless. There's little else that can cause so much harm. At least from what I've seen on this side of The Pond.

Except, perhaps, misplaced good intentions, and the worst of these, sometimes, are built on hate. That I've seen, over here, too.

Ah, well. May the politics of both our countries improve. And may all of us work, in our own small ways as we can, to be an instrument of that improving. The Brits have a wonderful phrase, "to do our bit."

And a bit of love wouldn't hurt.