Depressing editorial from Pier-Luigi Celli. Celli, a most capable man, is the director of Luiss, the closest thing (with the exception of Bocconi) that Italy has to an ENA; and yet I can’t imagine any Frenchman writing this kind of editorial.
More on the impossibility of extracting credible left-right ideal points from parliamentary roll-calls in Italy.
I’m not too happy about my upgrade to Karmic Koala. That’s due both to my own stupidity (not backing up as fully as I should have done), and to a number of minor niggles.
For example: whilst wireless worked perfectly, my ethernet didn’t autoconnect. I fixed it by following the steps at Craig Mayhew’s blog, but [...]
I’ve just emailed the final version of my thesis to the department.
I’ve spent most of today listening to my robotic overlord (his name is Alan) read out chunks of my thesis in the vain hope that I would better spot typos or errors that way. The idea — far too good to be my own, [...]
If you’re interested in the Partito Democratico, you might want to read this preliminary version of my article on the PD with Alex Wilson. It’s not just on Bersani’s election as party leader, but that’s there too.