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Geoff Andrews

Geoff Andrews is staff tutor in politics at the Open University. He is the author of Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi (Pluto, 2005), published in Italian as Un Paese Anormale (effepilibri, 2007). His The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure will be published by Pluto Press in 2008. Geoff Andrews is also an associate editor of Soundings.



 

Recent articles


Italy’s hour of darkness

The third coming of Silvio Berlusconi is bad news for Italy, for Europe and for democracy, says Geoff Andrews.

Italy: the ungovernable nation

A close election campaign in a troubled Italy highlights the country's need to break with the Silvio Berlusconi era, says Geoff Andrews.

Italy's governing disorder

The collapse of Italy's centre-left government is far more than just another political crisis, says Geoff Andrews.

Italy: another false dawn

Walter Veltroni promises a new era of political reform in Italy led by the modernising centre-left. Hmm, says Geoff Andrews.

Bologna's lesson for London

The northern Italian city of Bologna, hit by terrorists in August 1980, memorialised as well as mourned. London could take heart from its response, says Geoff Andrews.

(This article was first published on 2 August 2005)