It's well known that France gets a humungous EU
subsidy via the Common Agricultural Policy but I was intrigued to see
this described today as 'war reparations' that Germany (and the rest
of us) will eventually tire of making. Actually, the Brits have been
tired of it for years, especially after seeing the EU destroy its
fishing industry.
Whichever side you favour - if you do - there's no
denying that Hamas and Israel are engaged in a war to the death. In
such a war the object is to defeat the other side as quickly as
possible, which is why talk of 'proportionality' strikes me as odd.
Was there anyone at Hitler's side saying "Let's not send the V1
and V2 rockets to London. The British don't have any of their own"?
Pick your own example from the British side, possibly the fire
bombing of Dresden. Of course I deplore the deaths in Gaza but they
will only stop when the war is won and lost. Or when Hamas accepts it
can't win it and agrees to a real truce and peace settlement. I'm not
holding my breath.
You'd think that people who are trying to con you
with false emails would at least invest in a native speaker to check
their English, rather than rely on a dictionary. Or, worse, Google
Translate. This thought has been provoked by this message received
this morning: "Facebook. Unread messages will be deleted soon
woefully."
Finally . . . Here in Galicia, the ex President of
the Ourense provincial government has been sentenced to a 9 month bar
from office, which - given that he's retired - is not going to affect
him very much. Given a chance to comment on the offence of putting
140 people (mostly relatives) into jobs in the administration without
due process, the Galician President yesterday declined to call it a
crime, saying it was just a case of 'irregularities' and that the
ex-president had ceased to be a member of the PP party a while ago.
As if.
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