Death of a salesman: Silvio Berlusconi

Published: June 13, 2023, 10:26 a.m.

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Italy\\u2019s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion, and for all his gaffes and scandals he helped to shape the country\\u2019s media\\u2014and its economic malaise. Unfettered by the abandoned nuclear deal, Iran is now making its bomb programme unassailable. And bringing the 20th-century idea of \\u201cSmell-o-vision\\u201d into the 21st.

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