Italy: the last ruse?
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
– from Boswell’s Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Looking for loopholes …
Every now and then comes a move so brazen, so crass, so audacious, so spectacularly cynical, that one can but mockingly applaud — as long [...]
