Berlusconi.

Wee Silvio Berlusconi is an 'interesting' character don't you think? I mean, he's a successful businessman- the richest in Italy, owns the country's most successful football team- AC Milan, several time European Cup and Serie A winners, owns one of Italy's largest media companies and has been Italian PM three times. In spite of Silvio's obvious success in life, he maintains what he calls a 'connection' with the Italian working classes, playing all sorts of practical jokes befitting of a man of his position. Or something. Look!



Not quite sure how that has anything to do with the working classes. Even still, given Berlusconi's position I'm a wee bit surprised by that video, if a little amused about thinking of Tony Blair doing the same. Perhaps not the best way to mental health. To be fair to Silvio, he has got form in this arena. After a spat with the Finns over the location of the European Food Safety Authority in Parma, Silvio claimed he had to "dust off my English-language playboy skills" with the Finnish president, Tarja Halonen, to convince her to locate the EFSA there; a comment he later retracted saying "anyone who had seen a picture of Halonen must have been aware that he had been joking".

Silvio:


He's the one in the middle.

Tarja Halonen:


Hmm, no man in a bandana should be casting aspersions on another's appearance I feel. Just a rule of thumb that I have.

Except this guy: