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La principessa, non la senatrice

Isn’t it a shame that the citizens of Rome & Lazio neglected to choose Princess Alessandra Borghese as their senator? Our favorite inhabitant of the Palazzo Borghese is a sound Catholic, is good friends with the Pope, and was seen from afar during our first pilgrimage to Rome; good enough reasons to get my vote. While the UDC won a respectable 36 seats in the population-based Chamber of Deputies (an acceptable loss of 3 seats since the last election), la Principessa was a candidate for the regionally-based Senate, in which the UDC won only 3 seats, a loss of 18 since the 2006 elections.

Another young royal vied for a parliamentary seat in the recent Italian election, but you will have to wait until the next Norumbega for our little overview of the results.

April 24, 2008 9:57 pm | Link | Comments Off on La principessa, non la senatrice

Lions and Torches and Trees (Oh My!)

Or, What £40,000 Gets You in Today’s World

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The new (top) and old (bottom) Scottish Tory logotypes.

MONG THE MANY changes which the Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP has wrought in his ten months as leader of the Conservatives one of the most public is the change of the party’s emblem. The flaming torch is out and the solid oak is in, at a cost of £40,000 to Conservative Central Office (according to the Times). There are three slightly different designs of the tree for the UK-wide, Scottish, and Welsh parties. Previously, the national party used the ‘flaming torch of liberty’ logo while the Scottish party used a blue lion rampant and Wales had its rather comely red-white-and-blue dragon with fire pouring forth from its mouth. The former logo was the ‘flaming torch of liberty’, which only entered into usage in the 1980’s under Mrs. Thatcher. In its place, we find instead an oak tree with healthy greenery on its limbs and a trunk made out in the traditional Tory blue. (more…)

October 21, 2006 2:47 pm | Link | 1 Comment »

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