Of course, anyone with even a passing interest in social media will have been told \u2014\u00a0by Russian bots pretending to be normal people \u201cwho are just concerned and definitely not racist,\u201d and with at least two English flags in their bio \u2014 that London is not in the slightest bit sexy and is in fact a hellhole populated by ghastly foreigners. Not only that, but if you complain about the conditions there, you\u2019ll be attacked by the \u201cWoke Leftist Brigade\u201d \u2014 incidentally, also the name of my university indie band.<\/p>\n
This gap between left and right is growing by the day. This is even the case in liberal America (have you read the news this year? \u2014\u00a0ed), where staff at Vanity Fair magazine were reportedly furious<\/a> at the suggestion that model-turned-hostage Melania Trump grace the cover.<\/p>\n \u201cI will walk out the motherfucking door, and half my staff will follow me,\u201d one editor told the Daily Mail, presumably in between such woke activities as reading and drinking coffee (and also vastly overestimating reporters\u2019 loyalty to editors).<\/p>\n You know who\u2019d have no truck with all this sensitivity and hand-wringing? Silvio Berlusconi, that\u2019s who. If only the former Italian prime minister weren\u2019t dead.<\/p>\n But his wealth lives on. Villa Certosa, Berlusconi\u2019s sprawling Sardinian estate, is officially on the market (despite repeated emails, my request that POLITICO buy it and turn it into my office have gone unanswered). The 4,500-square-meter seafront residence was the scene of infamous\u00a0\u201cbunga bunga\u201d parties<\/a>, the sex-fueled soir\u00e9es that dogged Berlusconi\u2019s political career \u2014 and that means it will need the deepest of deep cleans.<\/p>\n However, it\u2019ll cost a lot to live in Berlusconi\u2019s former palace of sin. According to Mansion Global,<\/a> which sells houses to rich folk, Brendan Blumer, the American founder of Block.one \u2014 apparently a cryptocurrency firm and not a plumber\u2019s as I originally thought \u2014\u00a0splashed out \u20ac160 million on a Sardinian villa<\/a>, and Villa Certosa could sell for double that amount. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of course, anyone with even a passing interest in social media will have been told \u2014\u00a0by Russian bots…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,19132,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-381497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-declassified","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115109690484050033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}