Once upon a time the north of Italy, with Milan as its standard-bearer, was trumpeted as the moral capital of Italy: a city of relatively upstanding, industrious, enlightened citizens with City Hall...

More analysis in a new book by Giovanni Fasanella on the links - with virtuous intent or otherwise - over the decades between the Italian state and organised crime.

Thirty years of commercial TV in Italy have moulded the tastes and attitudes of the nation, its political ideology, its adhesion to Berlusconiism. That's now changed. With the advent of digital we'r...