Letter: How fish stink
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Your support makes all the difference.WHILE I agree with Patricia Clough's article 'Italians face the end of the good life' (28 February), I would like to add that ordinary Italians who appear to be hypocritical in condemning our politicians are victims of their corruption; an unemployed youth who uses a raccomandazione to get a job is desperate, not greedy. We have a saying, 'the fish stinks from the head'.
However, if a few disgraced officials feel enough shame to commit suicide, there is hope. Without shame there can be no morality.
Mario Laurenza
Enfield, Middlesex
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