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Beating the Italian Obama: Spiked publishes an excellent analysis on how Silvio Berlusconi's combination of charm, personality politics and better-the-devil-you-know guile beat the left's contender, who ripped off more than Barack Obama's campaign slogan.
A crackdown on "Passive Drinking": Also from Spiked, reports on an EU/UN health campaign that aims to target the "social harm" caused by alcohol. What started as something of a joke could have real clout as drinkers are targeted for the impact their tipple has on crime, violence, drink-driving - even the unborn child.
Don't say "passive drinking", though: The politically correct term is "environmental alcohol damage." We hope Littlejohn is reading this! More, plus some interesting comments, in The Telegraph.
Invading the swimming pools, invading the MSM: That fellow from Harry's Place wasn't allowed to take his son to a London swimming pool because it was a "Muslim-only" Sunday morning session. The Daily Mail - not exactly Harry's Place's spiritual partner - has an interview.
French film: Reward failure, punish success. That's the formula being touted by a group of influential directors hoping to save the middle ground of French film, which they say is being crowded out by big-budget crowd-pleasers on one side and indulgent student tripe no-one watches - but the government subsidises - on the other. A great feature from John Lichfield.
Arming Mugabe: Those nice Chinese people have sent a boatload of weapons to Mugabe's Zimbabwe, despite international pressure for the tyrant to stand down. South Africa, where the cargo is being handled, rightly says it cannot block the shipment as there is no official trade embargo; to their credit, the nation's dock workers union is refusing to handle it.
