Dawn

Dawn

Saturday, January 15, 2005

The political arm of the Basque terrorist group, ETA, has suggested that the armed struggle for independence could be forgone if only Mr Zapatero would take the ‘Tony Blair’ route forward. This, I suppose, would be to give ETA everything they wanted whilst they retained their weapons and, thus, the capacity to return to terrorism whenever it suited them. Somehow, I can’t see this happening, especially as ETA have suffered several significant reverses in the last year or so.

It would be fair to say that not all British footballers in Spain give the impression of having had a lobotomy. In particular, there’s Michael Robinson, who played for Liverpool in the 80s and now presides over the leading soccer commentary programme. He’s also one of the star puppets on Spain’s version of Spitting Image, which is quite an achievement.

I don’t know what came over me but, in the list of price increases I cited a week or so ago, I managed to overlook Telefonica, the state phone company. Maybe this is because they raise their rental charges so often it scarcely registers when the latest one comes along. Needless to say, each time this happens they trumpet the reduction in call costs forced on them by burgeoning competition; but this is little consolation when you don’t make many calls.

Good to see that RyanAir will be flying from London to Santiago from April this year. And rumours continue to circulate about EasyJet flying into La Coruña, Santiago and/or Vigo. Incidentally, if you have happened upon this comment because of an interest in Galicia, try my web page [colindavies.net] as this is dedicated to this verdant part of Spain.

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