disconnected from, Italian political discourse. The articles analysed were sourced from British newspaper websites and on the newspaper database Nexus UK. Through keyword searches and associations, such as 'Italy+gay', 'Italy+sexist', 'Italy+racist', the dataset was created, converging on the three central themes around which this research pivots (see section 1.5 for rationale). The dataset was then manually refined to include a variety of article genres (news reports, opinion pieces and editorials) from news products with different functions and diverse ideological standpoints, in order to carry out a sample comparative synchronic analysis that offers a ' developed account of alternatives' (Carvalho 2008: 161-77). From the category of quality papers, texts were sourced from the websites of the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent and The Times. More mainstream newspapers are represented by Daily Mail, The Mirror, The Sun and Daily Star. In the following section, the theoretical framework sustaining the analysis is briefly outlined, relating to news, national image and communication across cultures.

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