Geoff Andrews

Geoff Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Politics at The Open University. His new book, Shadow Man: James Klugmann, the Cambridge Spies and the Cold War, will be published by I.B.Tauris in 2015.

Silvio Berlusconi: ten more questions

Dear Signor Berlusconi, It is now nearly three weeks since La Repubblica published its list of ten questions in connection with your relationship to Noemi Letizia. You have chosen not

By Geoff Andrews

/ 1 Jun 2009

Italy’s creeping fascism

The death of a young woman after seventeen years in a coma, following a decision by doctors on legal advice not to continue feeding her, is a public as well

By Geoff Andrews

/ 19 Feb 2009

Roberto Saviano: an Italian dissident

The phenomenon of the Italian mafia has been depicted by many writers and filmmakers. Roberto Saviano's book Gomorrah - a gripping, unsentimental expose of the mafia in the southern

By Geoff Andrews

/ 22 Oct 2008

Italy’s hour of darkness

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

By Geoff Andrews

/ 17 Apr 2008

Italy: the ungovernable nation

This is the election that few Italians wanted. One of the failures of Romano Prodi's disputatious government, elected by a narrow majority in the election of 9-10

By Geoff Andrews

/ 11 Apr 2008

Italy's governing disorder

These are desperate times in Italian politics. The raucous, chaotic and humiliating scenes witnessed in the Italian parliament which brought the fall of Romano Prodi's centre-left government

By Geoff Andrews

/ 31 Jan 2008

Italy: another false dawn

These should be exciting times in Italian politics. A new party was launched on 14 October 2007 with a charismatic leader elected with a clear majority in primary elections in

By Geoff Andrews

/ 22 Oct 2007

Bologna's lesson for London

On 2 August 1980, a bomb planted by neo-fascists ripped through the waiting-room of Bologna railway station, killing 85 people and injuring more than 200. It exploded on

By Geoff Andrews

/ 2 Aug 2007

Walter Veltroni: Italy’s man for all seasons

The press dubbed it "Veltroni day", but when the current mayor of Rome and hot favourite to lead Italy's new Democratic Party finished his ninety-minute

By Geoff Andrews

/ 3 Jul 2007

Romano Prodis fragile centre

The last week in Italian politics, since prime minister Romano Prodi offered his resignation on 21 February after losing a crucial foreign-policy vote in the upper chamber of parliament,

By Geoff Andrews

/ 27 Feb 2007

The strange case of Mario Scaramella

At the end of Nanni Moretti's film, Il Caimano (The Cayman), supporters of Silvio Berlusconi stone the magistrates and set fire to the courthouse which has just tried

By Geoff Andrews

/ 12 Dec 2006

The slow revolution

In the centre of Cleveland, Ohio, Maurice Small runs a city farm for 15-18 year-olds who come from the roughest parts of the city, itself one of the

By Geoff Andrews

/ 25 Oct 2006