Dawn

Dawn

Monday, February 14, 2005

A new experience on a zebra crossing today – someone actually chose to swerve round me rather than stop. Quite impressive, in a shocked sort of way.

Later in the day, I saw the same zebra crossing occupied by an ambulance. Mind you, it had little choice as the yellow line which runs down the entire length of the street was already fully occupied.

Certain aspects of today’s political scene in Spain have an almost surrealistic quality about them. The Sinn Fein equivalent here is Batasuna, which speaks for the ETA terrorist organisation in the same way as Sinn Fein speaks for the IRA. The key difference is that Batasuna is a proscribed organisation. Nonetheless, this illegal party will field candidates in the imminent referendum on the new Constitution for the Basque Country, which is itself illegal. And all this is taking place while Spain votes on the over-arching EU Constitution.

Quote of the Day

Political language is designed to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind
George Orwell

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