Still a puppet master. Silvio Berlusconi is keeping Italy on tenterhooks.

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VITRIOLIC slanging matches in current-affairs talk-shows on Italian television mirror the country’s politics. It is more turbulent than ever after the supreme court upheld the conviction for tax fraud of Silvio Berlusconi, formerly prime minister. In the eight weeks since the court confirmed a four-year jail sentence (which will in effect be just one year of house arrest or community service), Italians have been subjected to more verbal mudslinging than usual. And they have been kept on tenterhooks about the survival chances of Enrico Letta’s fragile coalition government.

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