Is Italy the Next Tunisia?

One can't help but wonder after the most recent revelations from the police investigation of Silvio Berlusconi.

You are left wondering after the most recent revelations from the police investigation of Silvio Berlusconi.

Topless women dressed in nurse and police costumes stripped for the prime minister and his friends in his palatial residence outside Milan, which was described by one participant as "a whorehouse", according to phone calls intercepted by investigators.

"It's unbelievable, you have no idea," one young woman was recorded as telling another showgirl. "All of them call him "love" or "darling". You can't begin to imagine what goes on there. The papers don't tell the half of it even when they're massacring him. You're either ready to do anything or you take a taxi and leave". ....

The woman, Karima El Mahroug, claims Mr Berlusconi gave her £6,000 at the end of one of the parties but denies that it was in exchange for sex and also denies that she has ever worked as an escort.