  Impunity for the powerful The Guardian has urlLink an impeccable article on Androtti's conviction.  Besides being informative and correct ( though I wonder if people can follow the dark convolutions of Italian history through its most terrible turns)  it ends with the ominous note everybody has been pointing out to me these last few days:  Paradoxically,  the fate of a man who always emphasised his faith in the justice system is likely to be used by Mr Berlusconi and his allies to mount a renewed assault on the judiciary,  for the rules and traditions of which the present prime minister has scant regard.  The result could be a reduction in the autonomy of the magistrates and a return to the impunity of the powerful:  the principle that characterised,  perhaps more than any other,  the Andreotti years that have just been condemned.
