It
was illuminating to see David Cameron reprimanded by a judge for
commenting publicly on a criminal trial. It came on the same day as
the latest media report here on the investigation into the death of
the adopted Chinese girl in Santiago - viz. that she'd said a month
or two before her death that her parents were trying to kill her. Why
bother with a trial?
You
might think it'd be a doddle to navigate the site of
Movistar(Telefónica), Spain's largest (and pretty profitable)
telecoms company. If so, you'd be wrong. I spent at least half an
hour last night trying to get my mobile bill using the password
they'd sent to my phone. After I'd finally succeeded I then
discovered that neither my residence card number(NIE) nor the
password they'd sent me were relevant for my fixed line bill. It's at
times like this that you wonder just how long it will be before Spain
gets its act together and whether the sceptics aren't right that a
combination of inefficiency and corruption are an insuperable barrier
to this.
The
Great Catalan Confrontation: Cataluña's referendum on
independence will take place next November. There'll be 2 questions: “Do
you want Cataluña to be a state?” and “Do you want that state to
be independent?” The Spanish government has vowed to stop the
referendum, insisting it's unconstitutional, but one wonders quite
how they'll do this, short of military action. Like Scotland,
Cataluña has said it wants to stay in the EU and retain its current
currency. And as with Scotland, national and international
authorities have taken issue with these aspirations. So, an interesting
year ahead.
Scientology:
So, this nutty nonsense really is a religion, says the UK's Supreme
Court, as you don't need to worship a deity to be religious. I shall
now polish up and expand on my plans to gain the fiscal advantages
that come with this designation. I just need to decide what we should worship, now that it doesn't need to be me.
Finally
. . . Here's someone's view of the best 20 restaurants in Galicia. It
seems rather heavy on La Coruña and Ourense to me, though there is
one Pontevedran place. I've never eaten there but I walk past it
every day. I suspect its clientele comes largely from the city and regional government offices nearby. But probably not from
students at the Fine Arts building opposite it. Or, rather,
this was the situation until recently, when the place became the
restaurant of Hotel Room, half a mile away, and changed its
name accordingly. Bit of a come down.
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