Michelle Obama embraces clever tactic to deal with Silvio

ARMA virumque cano.

That surprised you, didn’t it? You weren’t expecting to get a lash of Latin over your Weetabix this Monday morning. This first line from Virgil’s Aeneid – “I sing of arms and the man” – gave Shaw the title for a play.

But it took on new life, this weekend, when Silvio Berlusconi got his comeuppance at the hands of America’s first lady.