Why Berlusconi will survive

Silvio Berlusconi is under pressure over his sexual dalliances but according to Antonio Polito,editor of Il Riformista, a centre-left Italian newspaper,his job is safe.

Writing in the Independent he says that

Sexual scandals are regarded as far less serious than financial ones. Italians regard private life and sexuality very differently from the British – it would require a book to explain (and maybe even that would not be enough). The simple fact is that a man with many women is an object of admiration; this is not an attitude unique to Italy but perhaps we are less hypocritical about acknowledging it than some other nations.