Ronaldopatrizio

Editor. Communications Director. Translator. Consul. President of Italian Scotland. Views STRICTLY personal. 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Congratulations to the people of Lebanon — the first country in the Arab world to abolish the death penalty! https://t.co/wFAyzqUL2Y

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I’ve done a few book blurbs in my time but I am really pleased and proud to be on this one.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is Scotland. Love it.

[Ronaldopatrizio @ronaldopatrizio]

You are all invited!

Ticket £10 includes aperitivo and live performance from @ScottishOpera singers.

Tickets can be bought at https://t.co/oLpxE4RGNG

[Ronaldopatrizio @ronaldopatrizio]

How impressive is this!

[I ❤️ Snooker @ILoveSnooker_]

It’s been 49 years since Doug Mountjoy played the greatest break-off in snooker history 😂

[Lord (David) Alton @DavidAltonHL]

With my children, I have visited - with countless others - the secret annex on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam where, on 4 August 1944, Anne’s family, and four others in hiding, were arrested along with their helpers Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler.

On 3 September 1944 the Frank family was deported to Auschwitz.

Later that year Anne and her sister, Margot, were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they contracted spotted typhus and died in February 1945.

Why go to Anne’s secret hiding place? Why take your children ? Why give them Anne Frank’s Diary to read?

So that they know what happened to Anne and to millions of others - including people with disabilities, political and religious dissidents, Roma, gay people and others - how hatred of difference so quickly and easily morphed into mass murder and catastrophic atrocities.

The rising generation and those which follow need to know that when we choose to look away or remain silent about genocide, such crimes can, and do, happen again and again.

In this last, moving, entry in her diary, Anne explores our often contradictory and conflicting characteristics:

[Ronaldopatrizio @ronaldopatrizio]

Italy unveils a new 1,500 km camino dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi https://t.co/vjdrWLjAyq

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Without the Sunday Times Farage might have stopped Burnham… without The Times Infantino might still be planning to sell the World Cup… without the largesse and ink-in-blood Rupert Murdoch neither would have happened.

Yes Fox News, phone hacking, climate denial and so many more terrible things he has created and/or denied will dominate the story of his life when he goes…. but so MUCH else is part of the story.

It take guts to stand up to power and he does and his son does.

[Ronaldopatrizio @ronaldopatrizio]

What a powerful, lovely moment …

[Mingmingzhu @mingzhu1994]

The memorable speech by Pope Paul VI during his visit to the Anagni Cathedral in 1966.

“...My children, it is the Hierarchy speaking to you, and the Vicar of Christ, who stands before you today, tells you this: that we are not so much meant to command as to serve. May I ask you, my dearest children, for this favour, which I am sure you will not refuse me: Love the Pope...” 🤍

[GeoTechWar @geotechwar]

⚠️ UPDATE: Severe shaking and immediate panic reported across Naples, Italy following a strong magnitude 4.7 earthquake centered in Campi Flegrei.

#Terremoto - Sismo - #Napoli - Pozzuoli - Fuorigrotta - Campania

[Quirinale @Quirinale]

Cordoglio del Presidente Mattarella per la scomparsa di Don Antonio Mazzi

[Giorgio Gori @giorgio_gori]

Ciao don Antonio. Grazie per tutto il bene che hai fatto nella tua vita. Ti porterò nel cuore.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

This was always a government Bill in disguise. I am very pleased the new PM has ended government support for it.

We must fix social care before we allow assisted dying, says Burnham
https://t.co/udlmbj7zJV

[Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @MhairiHunter]

Jeezo. I support the right to protest but lining up in paramilitary formation can't be seen as anything other than intimidation. Solidarity with staff at the Daily Record.

[Michael Robinson @MJRobinson1571]

BREAKING

Andy Burnham asked live by Sky news on his position on assisted suicide.

Burnham: "I take the view that that debate, and I don't say there shouldn't be a debate at some point about those issues. Personally, I think there is something that needs to happen first and that's the funding of palliative care and social care. I think it is very challenging to introduce that wider debate in the context of people not receiving that care and having the peace of mind about that care. And that's the way I kind of see this and that's the position I will stick to."

[Ronaldopatrizio @ronaldopatrizio]

Don't miss this great interview with Italy's new Consul General Luca Fratini as he takes up his mandate and reflects in his first weeks in Scotland.

Edimburgo e i servizi consolari italiani https://t.co/wSJqqt4Fme via @FacebookWatch

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

It looks like the Government is no longer neutral on legalising assisted suicide. This is highly significant.👇

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet.

It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world.

Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds.

You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded.

Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together.

And the archive gets insanely specific.

You can find creaking ships, old typewriters, jungle ambience, distant church congregations, and even someone vigorously washing their hands.

There is a good chance a BBC engineer recorded the exact sound you need decades before you were born.

https://t.co/vdOBewxyg3

[Ronaldopatrizio @ronaldopatrizio]

@mara_carfagna Verissimo

[Ronaldopatrizio @ronaldopatrizio]

Italy made it to the World Cup final this year. Just as well Laura Pausini wasn’t busy

[Trash Italiano @trash_italiano]

Laura Pausini durante la cerimonia di chiusura dei #Mondiali.