Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain
Spanish Politics- The very latest on the imminent elections. Just a prelude to more next year??
- This has rather put me of tortillas for a while . . .
- The Local gives us here the most beautiful places in Spain to visit this autumn/fall.
- If you're hoping for a dry, sunny Hallowe'en where you might even be able to relax on the beach, the Mediterranean or the Canary Islands are where you should be – everywhere else is going to be wet and, at high altitudes and in the far north, cold, too, say weathermen. Elsewhere? . . . downpours.
- Our Aussie friend may be happy with her life in the region but, as I've reported, many Gallegos aren't.
- I cited the other day Niall Ferguson's view that a major problem these days is an excess of (over-qualified) graduates in society. Someone else has asked whether Tony Blair's achieved goal of getting more than 50% of kids into universities was worth it. And comes up with a negative answer: The number of graduates in the workforce is soaring, almost doubling from 6.7m in 2004 to 12.8m last year. Better education is supposed to be the answer to 3 of the biggest challenges facing the economy – weak wage growth, wheezing productivity growth and the automation of work by robots. More years of schooling should help with all 3, yet new data suggests this is not happening. Bugger.
- So, there's finally to be an election in December. But, as Richard North puts it: The only certainty is that there are a lot of people who are already fed up with the idea of an election, as much as they are with Brexit.
- So . . . All bets are off. The election might resolve things but, then again, it might not. Just as with Spain's November election. It's a funny, confusing world.
The EU
- The euro simply can't 'break free', it says here. Largely because of German constraints, it appears.
- Narcissists, it's reported, are ever more numerous. Perhaps it's because: Narcissists might have "grandiose" delusions about their own importance and an absence of "shame" - but psychologists say they are also likely to be happier than most people. Unless they are booed in public, of course. Which reminds me . . .
The USA
- Ffart - An orange face for red necks.
Nutters Corner
- Right-wing pastor Perry Stone, best known for checking his phone while speaking on tongues, further abandoned those supposed Christian principles of holiness and righteous behavior when he declared that Democrats who oppose Donald Trump are demon-possessed.
- Far-right crackpot and conspiracy theorist Chris McDonald has accused Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the man leading the impeachment inquiry about Trump, of pedophilia, human trafficking and of being a “high-ranking Satanist.
Aren't American politics wonderful. Not to mention American Christianity.
Finally . . .
- Anyone who writes a blog will be familiar with the idiosyncrasies of an automatic spellcheck. I see this morning that yesterday the name of a shop - Currys - was changed to Curries, Which must have amused any British reader(s).
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