““Venice, ruled by a Council of Ten for 500 years, has a history of secretive government by a cosy nexus of political and business interests. Some Venetians are asking how much has changed after the latest corruption scandal to hit la Serenissima. The city’s centre-left mayor, Giorgio Orsoni, resigned yesterday over a bribery scandal linked to the €5bn Mose flood barrier project that has also embarrassed the government of Matteo Renzi.””
![“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of…” quote by Nora Ephron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d79/nora-ephron-1217_business_s-ometimes-when-you-are-a-food-person-th_980.jpg)
![“If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bad/bertrand-russell-69_acquire_if-the-state-does-not-acquire-supremacy_1379.jpg)