I recently cited some
expert who said changing the Spanish clock back to what it was before
1942 wouldn't change a thing about Spanish life and could well be
counter productive. The nation seems to be willing to ignore his
professional advice, if this report is accurate.
The Brits are leaving
Malaga in droves, it's reported here. I can't help wondering whether
the notorious Modeloo 720 is also a large factor in this developmet.
Because it was the
first, the British national health service is more of a political hot potato
here than anywhere else in 'socialist' Europe. Attitudes
towards it are quite frankly ridiculous, every proposal to improve it
being greeted with outraged accusations of 'privatisation'. It's an
open secret – and has been for at least 20 years – that just
chucking more money at it is not remotely the answer. Spending has
doubled in the last 10 years but the service remains in crisis. But .
. . Is there a cloud of common sense on the horizon, no bigger than a
man's hand? On Andrew Marr's politics show yesterday, he uttered this
long-obvious question: Are we at the point of needing to ask
whether we should be doing things in another way? But I won't be
holding my breath for a sensible answer. And using the superior –
if still imperfect – Spanish system, which relies on a lot of
private medical insurance, even for those of a Leftwards persuasion.
British university
students have become so averse to being upset by anything at all
while boozing their way through their courses that they are now
routinely referred to as snowflakes. So, I wasn't surprised to read
this yesterday: Fancy dress costumes have emerged as the latest
battleground in student politics amid further evidence of curbs to
freedom of expression and speech on university campuses. A new
analysis shows that censorship has steadily increased at
universities, with 94% of campuses having some restrictions on
freedom of expression, up from 90% last year and 80% in 2015.
A bellringer in a
English church got his foot caught in his rope and was hauled
skywards 30 metres. This allows me to crack a joke I made about this
possibiity many years ago . . . . Does this mean he was tolled off?
Finally . . . A reader - Perry? - has
asked whether Hoylake isn't really on/in Deeside, rather than
Merseyside. My mother would be much happier if this were the case and
it weren't associated with Liverpool in any way – she was born and raised there – but here is the evidence that it is:-
MERSEYSIDE
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