Dawn

Dawn

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

A commentator in the Spanish press has suggested that British foxes will have greeted the recent Labour anti-hunting bill with applause. Only if they prefer being gassed, poisoned or shot, I imagine.

Talking of quotes, a bill to drastically simplify the divorce law here in Spain has allowed two people to dredge up Groucho Marx’s line that the principal cause of divorce is marriage. The second of these shameless barrel-scrapers is me.

The Spanish President has announced that Tony Blair has personally assured him that negotiations on the handover of Gibraltar will restart within the next few months. Obviously, Mr Zapatero is unfamiliar with the names and disappointments of Roy Jenkins, Paddy Ashdown and Britain in Europe, to name but a few.

Just a couple of days after the launch of the dictionary designed to root out Anglicisms in Spanish [see Sunday’s blog], a new one has taken centre stage – El bullying. See what I mean about Canute?

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