Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
- Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain*
Life in Spain in the Time of Something Like Cholera
- A sad, bad statistic.
- Andalucia's government has proposed relaxations ahead of most/all of the other 16 regions.
- Spain looks with envy at the success of next-door Portugal, with some folk seeing the reason in the very different qualifications of the respective Health supremos. One of which graduated in philosophy and has never been anything other than a politician.
- What you and your kids are now allowed and not allowed to do on the streets of Spain. Where the police can always be relied on to be officious.
- Maria's Chronicle: Day 43.
- Did I already cite this case of a 106 year old woman who survived the 1918 flu epidemic and who has again foiled the Grim Reaper? If so, it bears repetition.
- The Post Office (Correos) is supposed to be operating relatively normally but I'm not just one but two months behind in the receipt of Prospect magazine. And the parcel of books from The Netherlands never did arrive.
- I found myself wondering yesterday if leaders of the far-right Vox party would admit that Guernica was bombed in 1937 and that the Nationalist claim that the Basques had set fire to their own city had never been remotely credible. Nothing would surprise me.
- A couple of quotes from this Politico article on the 'Problem of Germany', neither of them much of a surprise to some of us:-
o Instead of acting as the great equalizer, as the fathers of the euro promised, the euro has exacerbated Europe’s economic divisions and, arguably left some countries worse off.
- The looming Battle of the Bonds.
- What we all imagined what the poor woman was thinking:-
- I've always (half)believed his own party would arrange an assassination - perhaps by injection of detergent - as it would avoid having to admit to supporting a corrupt madman. The chances of this actually happening have possibly recently increased.
The Way of the world
- Can this be correct?: The pandemic exposes liberalism's free trade, open borders road to national suicide. Click here.
- Likewise the contention that the global economic collapse reveals the complete failure of neo-liberal capitalism. Here.
- Accurate comment: Social media have turbocharged the views of paranoid nutcases.
- Case in point.
Finally . . .
- An invention mothered by dubious necessity:-
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