Let’s hug it out (Photo by Thiago Barletta)
If you haven’t read this story about the Italian government’s latest “war on the immigration business”, it’s got the full tragi-comedic spectrum.
1 People for terra nullius [just baiting ya, Matteo. But seriously, Italy has a major shortfall in human beings, and the ones it has got aren’t living in places like Riace]
2 Southern Italy is now the Migration Innovation hub of Europe [how refreshing does that sound?]
3 A Tourist Spectacle [look kids, Africans in Italy not selling handbags!]
4 The Gene Pool just got all shook up
5 The possibility of an Eros Ramazzotti-Naija hip-hop mashup a la La Haine
6 Another middle-aged European just got Married [Ed – just how many marriages are of inconvenience?]
7 More Tax Revenue [seriously, look it up]
8 Young Workers [not retirees from Ruislip with dodgy hips]
9 More on the Menu than ham & cheese baguettes at lunchtime [OK, it’s a cheap jab, but Italians can take it, we all know their cuisine is the best in the world!]
10 They lured Matteo Salvini into looking even more preposterous than he already did