Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain
Spanish politics- You may have missed this amidst all the excitement of historical events in the UK and the USA. There was another Supreme Court announcement of great moment yesterday. Now to see the Spanish Far Right at its very worst. Or was that earlier this week in the context of the selection of the Queen of a fiesta down in Andalucia.
- The Bank of Spain is less optimistic than it was. Pretty understandable, all things considered.
- Beware a pyramid scheme targeted at feminists, called Telar. Or Loom. I believe this is a reference to this scam, now in Spain.
- I see that such things as e-bikes and e-scooters are called VMPs. Vehículos de Mobilidad Personal. Probably ordinary bikes and scooters as well.
- If you're going to be driving here, you need to know that - as well as being confused and confusing on roundabouts - Galicians are the worst in Spain for driving while on the phone. Whether this is an absolute verdict or the reflection of police efficiency, I can't say.
- I'm hoping our mayor will follow up his comments and install bike paths on all the city's wide pavements. Or, at the very least, on O Burgo bridge. Perhaps there even a lane just for 'pilgrims'.
- There is a group of folk talking their dogs on the camino; the latter have been termed perregrinos . . .
- Richard North today: There's a great deal that's already been said about the Supreme Court judgement, and little to be gained by rehearsing issues already done at great length. As of now, however, it takes us no closer to a Brexit resolution and, if anything, it complicates something which is already fearsomely complicated. In particular, allowing parliament to resume does us no favours. This is an institution which is part of the problem. It has rejected the only deal that could be acceptable to the EU, it has sought to block a no-deal scenario (and may have succeeded in so doing), and is pushing Johnson to secure yet another Article 50 extension which ostensibly serves no other purpose but to delay Brexit those few months more. More here.
- One of the numerous commentators: A word on the powers of the Supreme Court. Yesterday’s ruling will prove a landmark in our constitutional history. To see it as merely legally unremarkable is naive. Politically it was very remarkable indeed. Of course there were ancient legal precedents and a well-marked path to the ruling. The judgment set these out at length. Yet the case marked a development in the powers of the court. After all, the High Court thought this power did not exist and now it does.
- Thomas Cook is not alone.
- So, the impeachment process has finally begun. The odds against it succeeding must still be high, whatever Ffart is guilty of to date and whatever he does in the future. Or 'going forward', as it's now compulsory to put it.
- Right-wing Pastor Robert Jeffress on Fox News: Referring to Ffart's speech to the UN: It was an absolutely tremendous speech about religious freedom. The only thing more fun than listening to him is listening to the liberals whine that he had the audacity to skip the climate summit. I tell people all the time ‘This president is brilliant.’ He decides to skip attending a session on an imaginary crisis — climate change — and instead he chooses to lead his own conference on a very real problem, global persecution. God said he created the environment to serve us, not for us to serve the environment. This Greta Thunberg, the 16 year-old, she was warning today about the mass extinction of humanity. Somebody needs to read poor Greta Genesis chapter 9 and tell her the next time she worries about global warming, just look at a rainbow; that’s God’s promise that the polar ice caps aren’t going to melt and flood the world again. If I wasn't already an atheist . . .
- Word of the Day: Jaunetes. Bunions.
- I see:-
- There's a shop in Vilargarcia - a hot bed of narcotráficos - called Floristería Colín. I wonder if it's a money-laundering front.
- The colin de California is a quail.
- BTW . . . My neighbour, Toni, refuses to believe I'm an atheist and takes the RC church's view that, having been baptised a Catholic, I still am a Catholic . . . But we did establish that, despite his still being a Catholic, he hasn't been to Mass for years. So, a 'cultural Catholic' at best.
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