Fly Bunga Bunga

Milan's main airport seems unlucky in its names. At the moment it's called Malpensa, which suggests evil thoughts or badly-weighed plans; and the far-right cabal currently running Italy have every intention of living down to the label. A scheme is afoot to rename the airport after Silvio Berlusconi, the sometime prime minister who was born and died in Milan and whose unpalatable mix of vapidity, vulgarity, corruption and crimes against hair foreshadowed such political excrescences as the Trumpster and the National Johnson. It's true that the Americans named a major city airport after a priapic political sleaze; but even they only did so after his mediocrity was transcended through assassination. Accordingly, and despite the close association of airports with such Berlusconian values as pollution, noise and needless expense, the idea has provoked considerable protest.