Spanish Politics: After
gains for the (very) corrupt PP party in the latest round of
inconclusive elections, a small party of the Left has announced it'll
be putting 500 criminals on its next list of candidates, so as to
improve its chances of securing more seats in the parliament.
Driving in Spain: If
you lose all your 12 points here, you have to go on a course.
Surprise, surprise – the Guardia Civil is investigating claims that
there's been skullduggery in the granting of the franchise for this. And quite possibly in passing pupils.
Brexit: Richard North
of EUreferendum continues to excoriate British politicians and the
media for their ignorance around what's happened:- For want of
understanding, the politico-media establishment is doing what it
always does – churning out a torrent of words. But rather than aid
clarity, this does nothing but draw attention to the single fact
that, in its response to the EU referendum, total confusion reigns.
No amount of reading, no careful summarising and no diligent
synthesis will deliver clarity. It is not there to be had. After
decades of ignoring the detail of our relationship with the European
Union, the establishment is well and truly caught out. It really
doesn't understand the subject, so all it can do is make a great deal
of noise, and hope no-one notices. . . . We are mired in a
Westminster soap opera that is generating a great deal of heat, but
very little light. In this classic post, Richard North plumps for
Theresa May as the least bad option for a successful negotiation
around an Article 50 exit. For what it's worth, I agree.
Galicia: The head of
the Guardia Civil here has gone on record saying that: Our feeling is
that drug trafficking continues to take place in Galicia. And - as
Private Eye would put it - that the Pope is a Catholic and bears shit
in the woods. And this passes for news? It must be summer.
The European
Championship: Until recently, this has been, as one commentator put
it, a flat tournament in which fatigue, fear and familiar failings
have dominated. But Thank Whoever for Wales and Iceland. What a final
that would have been! As the same commentator added - There is no
need to discuss England. Probably because words would add nothing to
their abysmal performance.
Genetically Modified
Rice: No fewer than 110 Nobel Prize winners have formally recorded
their view that Greenpeace's campaign against this is costing many
lives. Science, though, doesn't count for much when you have views
akin to religious faith. Shame about the suffering. It's not even as
if plants haven't been genetically modified throughout human history.
Where does Greenpeace think today's wheat came from?
Finally . . . Washing
Up Liquid: I'm on record as saying that women tend to use at least
ten times more of this than I do. As was confirmed by the young
French guests I had last week. Today, my sister arrives for a couple
of weeks and she's the British and world champion at this. So I'll be
buying 2 or 3 bottles of liquid today, before I pick up her and my niece at Oporto
airport.
A wonderful cartoon on the subject of the interecine war in the British Conservative party. Of course, it would do for the Labour party as well, though with more participant. Amusing times.
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