What a complete joke.  This is the political assassination of an inconvenient media owner.  All the European socialist ochlocracies that are dominated by state-owned, licence fee-financed media should jolly well shut up about "freedom of the media" and recognise what they really are: punitively overtaxed, inefficient clientele states with big public sector mouthpieces.

End of.

I'd rather go to a party with Berlusconi than any other politician. He seems like a good fun bloke.

The guy was a buffoon. Made his country a laughing stock.

I'd have jailed him for his hair weave alone.

Who's his tailor...?

Indeed, nothing but a whore master and ex-crooning buffoon who reduced Italy to a caricature and bad joke.

He did have a lot of support and controlled the media, providing beautiful eye candy on the Rai channels. But I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago, and there wasn't anyone voicing any support for him, even those who previously have given me the view that he has saved Italy from socialism and communism. I always admired his speech supporting the mafia and threatening those who delved into their antics in which he gave a fascist salute at the end, this revealed everything you needed to know about this vile and corrupted being.

Let us hope his appeal fails and he serves his time in a dark and damp cell, suitable for odious creatures. It would be good if Blair joined him to clean out the slops.

He was a great whore master, if you regard those kind of men as heroic.

The Bliars probably live in constant fear of Islamic extremists and even grieving families of dead servicemen. They probably cannot even go for a stroll to the newsagent; they probably live in houses with alarms, armed guards and bullet-proof windows. I have also heard that Bliar and Bush dare not enter certain countries for fear of arrest as war criminals (which they are). Basically, they are under a form of arrest and will stay like that for life! Yo!

As for Berlusconi: he's a gangster, so the possibility of doing time is to be expected.