Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight.

And, lo, has caught the sultan’s turret in a noose of light!

Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable: Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’

Cosas de España

Post-election Politics

• The FT thinks it was A victory for common sense. Because: The losers include the hard-right Vox party and separatists in Catalonia
• BUT . . . Things got even more complicated
• AND . . . As predicted here, Sra Ayuso sees – and seizes – her chance to position herself as the next PP leader, possibly quite soon

More important things . . . Coming soon a wine festival near you. Maybe. Including one I’ve never heard of down by the river Miño – 28 September – 6 October. The Grape Harvest Festival in San Miguel de Tabagón, O Rosal – one of our two Albariño zones.

Something else I’ve just learned is the our ugly – but bright inside – new museum & art gallery was named after the wonderful Castelao back in 2021.

Here and here is María on our weather woes.

Because of recent price hikes, I checked my gas bills of last winter with those of the previous 4 years and was surprised – shocked, even – to find the total was less than in each of these. In the case of 2018/9, 48% less. Was that a very cold winter, I wonder. Or am I now operating more efficiently?

The UK

Why has the UK become so poor, asks the writer of this article, who then provides one answer and claims that some see a reason for hope. Welcome to the 1970s.

The estimable Camilla Long goes tooth and nail for the country’s snobby, hypocritical, climate-change-deranged middle class here. And pig-trough politicians. Good stuff.

Russia

Our misreading of Russia is deep. Very deep, says this historian. Perhaps because, as someone once said: It’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

(A)GW/Energy/Net Zero

Also as predicted here . . .

Allegedly:-

• People are finally starting to wake up to the fact that many green policies are not a pragmatic response to particular problems, carefully designed to ensure that the greatest benefit is achieved at the smallest cost. They are a thinly veiled attack on particular lifestyles that punish those who aren’t signed up to the climate apocalypse hysteria. More here.
• Climate hysteria is a serious threat to mankind’s survival. . . Wild claims will only serve to depress and alienate. . . The way forward has to be rational argument and human ingenuity. More here.

The Way of the World

Antihumanists see fellow humans as stupid, obsolete, fragile, and hateful. These 4 premises are mutually supporting and together, they serve to legitimize, and usher in more fully, the post-political condition. One thing they have in common is that, if taken to heart, they attenuate the citizenly pride that is both cause and effect of self-government. Rationale here.

Finally . . .

To amuse . . .

For new readers:- If you’ve landed here looking for info on Galicia or Pontevedra, try here. If you’re passing through Pontevedra on the Camino, you’ll find a guide to the city there – updated a bit in early July 2023.

P. S. I’d like you to know that I write these posts while supervising my 2 and 4 year old grandsons, while their mothers take the opportunity to do/not do other things . . .