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

Picasso’s war masterpiece triggers a political spat.

As if it weren’t already difficult to get to fly to Galicia from the North of England . . . TBH, I won’t be surprised if SdC airport doesn’t open on 27 May.

The mistreatment of foreigners by Spanish banks. And Spaniards, too, I guess.

An extreme case of the famous Spanish ‘individualism’ . . .

The Middle East War

Tim Walz rips ‘feeble-minded’ Trump during a speech, as war negotiations fall apart.

Mad King Trump gets the Strait slammed in his face. A rapidly declining Trump is living in a “dark fantasy” world as the Iranians close the Strait in anger at his lies. Meanwhile the MSM is beginning to break some bad news about the war.

The United States of Trump USA

Quote: The problem with Donald Trump is partly the fact that he is, of course, a psychotic narcissist but also that he is sometimes distressingly, right. . . . . Indeed. As with everyone else, he believes Iran should never have a nuclear bomb. But click here from minute 4.28s to understand how successful the mendacious, untrustworthy Trump has been in ensuring that it doesn’t. It’s frightening – nay, terrifying – to know that some sensible people believe that – so misguided has his (Israeli-driven?) strategy been to date – that the only real option he has now is to carry out his maniacal threat to obliterate the country. The consequences of which don’t bear thinking about. As someone once said: The wages of sin is death. And a lot of that will come to the USA if this happens. A price which the psychotic Trump is clearly incapable of considering.

Is it X or Y?. . .With Trump, it’s always both.

Quotes of the Day

• Trump’s debacle over Iran is a consequence of extraordinary geopolitical ignorance and a misplaced belief in his own powers.
• That image of a glowing Trump as Christ flanked by eagles and aeroplanes reminded me immediately of Spanish Falangist art of the 1930s. It was, indisputably, fascistic, though I think even Franco would have been a tad embarrassed by its presumption.

Relevant podcasts/YouTube videos

• The Daily Beast Podcast/Video
• Inside Trump’s Head Podcast/Video
• The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent Podcast
• The Rest is Politics US Podcast/Video
• The DSR Network Podcast
• The Politics Girl Video. Amusing
• The Daily Show Video. Very amusing

Spanish

• Sabiduría: Wisdom
• Sagacidad: Wisdom. Shrewdness.
• Sacerdote: Priest

English

Synonyms for ‘writer’s cramp’ . . .

You Have to Laugh

Another uncomfortable Finn . . .

Finally . . .

These are some names parents from various countries in the world have recently tried to call their kids but have been stopped from doing so by the authorities:

• Cyanide
• Lucifer
• Metallica
• Tallulah does The Hula in Hawaii
• Nutella.
• For a pair of twins – Fish and Chips.

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