Beppe Severgnini has been writing for Corriere della Sera since 1995. Since 2011, he has served as a columnist for the Financial Times. His most recent book is La pancia degli italiani. Berlusconi spiegato ai posteri (Rizzoli, 2010), which was published in English as Mamma mia! Berlusconi´s Italy Explained to Posterity and Friends Abroad (Rizzoli, 2011). Since 1998, Severgnini moderates the online forum ´Italians´ at Corriere della Sera (www.corriere.it/italians). He is the most-followed Italian journalist on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/beppesevergnini).