It’s not just me who drones on about prostitution in Spain; a columnist on a local paper wrote a critical article today which included the following comments:- Spanish highways are plagued with little red lights which billow up like spores on the edges of her towns . . The highways and their evil little lights indicate places out of control, free trade areas of modern slavery, where women are forced to sell the only things they have – their dignity and their bodies. The writer naturally called for something to be done but, sadly, there’s no evidence of a political will to tackle this blight.

Having not had a satisfactory response to its queries, the EU Commission is taking legal action against Spain for the measures taken to prevent the takeover of a local energy company by the German giant, EON. The Commission has written to say things will get much worse if the Spanish government doesn’t send it a statement of its case. Fat chance; no one answers letters in Spain. Perhaps if all the Commission members came down to Madrid for a cup of coffee, things could be sorted out. Face-to-face. Mano a mano. Bull and matador.

In Somalia yesterday, there was an execution under Muslim Sharia law. This featured the son of a murdered man stabbing to death his killer, who was blindfolded and tied to a pole. I know this because Spanish newspapers naturally brought us the pictures, in colour even.

The parents of the kids at the school next to the new roundabout I featured the other day have now decided to disrupt the traffic in their protest against what they see as increased danger, both from moving cars and from stationary bollards. My own suspicion is what really riles them is they can no longer illegally park their cars on the chevrons in the middle of the junction. There’s now a garden where these used to be.