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.

The Azzurris message to Italy

Italy on the night of 9 July 2006 was a place to dissolve any doubts about the capacity of football to restore a sense of national pride. As Italians streamed

By Geoff Andrews

/ 9 Jul 2006

Sicilys other story

The local elections across Italy on 28-29 May 2006 saw significant successes for representatives of the country's centre-left government elected in the general election of 9-10 April. The

By Geoff Andrews

/ 30 May 2006

Italy between fear and hope

At 3pm on Monday 10 April, I arrived at Piazza Santi Apostoli, the Rome base of the centre-left Unione coalition, for the first exit poll. At 3am the following morning

By Geoff Andrews

/ 10 Apr 2006

In search of a normal country

"What we need after Berlusconi is a boring, serious leader. I said to Prodi before the first face-to-face TV debate: Romano, I hope you will be very boring. If

By Geoff Andrews

/ 5 Apr 2006

Berlusconis bitter legacy

These should be the last days of Silvio Berlusconi. Each morning finds him in a more desperate condition than the last, and his old tricks no longer seem to work.

By Geoff Andrews

/ 28 Mar 2006

Italy's election: no laughing matter

The Italian general election, now set for 9 April 2006, will be one of the most important of the last sixty years. It will also be one of the dirtiest.

By Geoff Andrews

/ 1 Feb 2006

The life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini

In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini writer, poet, film director and one of Italys leading intellectuals was found on wasteland in

By Geoff Andrews

/ 1 Nov 2005

Bossis  and Berlusconis  last shout?

Mr. Schulz, I know there is a producer in Italy who is making a film on the Nazi concentration camps. I will suggest you for the role of kapo. You

By Geoff Andrews

/ 16 Jul 2003

Days of hope, rage and tragedy: from the summit foothills

Wednesday 18 July: Were not anarchists Along with everyone else heading for Genoa on one of the last flights before the curfew, I am diverted to a control desk

By Geoff Andrews

/ 1 Aug 2001