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

And, lo, the hunter of the east 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/Galiza

Property in Spain, courtesy of Mark Stücklin of Spanish Property Insight:-

• Immigration is helping to drive the current boom. Mostly Europeans?
• Barcelona’s mayor restricts foreign purchases, on the basis of nil evidence that this will have a positive impact.
• Why are some properties ‘unsellable’?

The trade spat between Spain and the MAGA moron in the White House.

The USA

See my earlier post.

‘Operation Epstein Distraction’: Trump’s bloody Iran ‘hype videos’ seem to target a niche audience. The White House wages an online propaganda campaign with aggressive and tasteless videos seemingly designed for young rightwing American men.

Will Tulsi Gabbard be the next of the moronocracy to go? A Democrat from Michigan, has filed articles of impeachment against Bondi.  It’s highly unlikely that this will go anywhere. It’s also unlikely that the subpoena will result in Bondi saying much of value when it comes to Epstein. A true Trumper, she is an endless fount of deflection and nonsense. h

I thought I’d already written about this group of religious nuts who believe that the least Christian man on the planet has been ordained by their god to save the world. But I can’t trace it. Apologies if this is a repeat. I doubt many of us would object to him being nailed to a cross and martyred. I imagine everyone in the foto has at least one private jet.

Russia and China: The Way of the World

One wonders if Trump is dismayed – or even disappointed – to see his close friends helping Iran defeat him in war.

Spanish

Tener predicamento To have influence.

Finally . . . . Did you know?

The mesmerising Dr Mesmer.

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