Dawn

Dawn

Thursday, February 24, 2005

El Mundo is still rather agitated about the proposed changes to the TV franchises which they claim will financially benefit the leading patron of the socialist government. Strangely enough, the left-of-centre El Pais has had nothing to say on this subject. But, then, it is owned by the individual in question.

One event they do both report on is the death of a Cuban writer, resident in London, who went into hospital because of a hip injury and came out in a box, victim of the MRSA plague in the NHS. His wife, as you might expect, is not all happy with this and things have reached a pretty pass when a Cuban is critical of the UK health service. Can there be any politician left in the UK who still believes that the NHS is ‘the envy of the world’?

Talking of newspapers and politics, at least Spain doesn’t suffer from the curse of an unholy alliance between the government, a press baron and the tabloid press. This, I suspect, will be the lasting heritage of Blairism and I have thought about coining the word Politoids to describe it. If it catches on, you heard it here first. But it probably won’t as it sounds rather like a lot of haemorrhoids. A pile of piles. I’d better stop now.

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