Nothing much...

...but four years ago I wrote this piece of verse, and I don't think I ever published it on this blog. ( Read more... )

This literally brought tears to my eyes...

...not just for the understated power of the song, but for the heart-breaking subtext, come from someone who really knew what racism was and what it could do to a man.

National shame

Nothing since the treacherous behaviour of our government at the time of the Falklands War has made me so ashamed of being Italian as the appalling hero's welcome delivered to Hugo Chavez in the most beautiful city in the world. He should have been arrested and thrown in the local jail.