Colin Davies

29 April 2026

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

A couple of depressing aspects of today’s Spanish society:-

Lenox Napier writes here on the imminent elections in Andalucia.

A striking new map has revealed where British expats have clustered on Spain’s costas – including several towns where they make up c. 50% of the population. The map highlights locations from Almeria to Alicante where Brits account for more than 40% of residents – peaking at nearly 55% in part of one Murcia town. In Lenox’s neck of the woods, in fact.

Iran

What if everything you think you know about this country is wrong? I’m very grateful to have had the privilege to live there 3 years and to tour the country.

The Middle East War

The latest update from Naked Capitalism.

The United States of Trump America

Quotes

  • Trump to Europeans: If it wasn’t for us, you’d all be speaking German.
  • King Charles to Trump: If it wasn’t for us, you all be speaking French.
  • The WHCD Incident: Per the executive editor of The Daily Beast, Hugh Dougherty: It wasn’t a conspiracy: it was a condemnation. The grim reality is that this country is living in a toxic present of guns, gunmen, political division and violence, set in a chaotic and often failing governing class, topped off with years of good reason to be cynical about everything the current president says. Nobody needed to ‘stage’ this. It wasn’t a stunt. It was simply one moment when that toxic combination could be seen in all its ugly colors.
  • Melania Trump: Kimmel’s monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens[sic] the political sickness within America. [Hmm. Her husband is a lot better at that but she doesn’t seem to have noticed in 10 years].
  • Trump: Kimmel’s joke was a despicable call to violence. [So unlike any of his own comments and actions, such as encouraging and then pardoning the Jan 6 criminals.]
  • Trumps want to be free to say whatever he wants and wants the media to say whatever he wants.

Trump family crypto coins:-

  • The Trump coin: Launched at 40 dollars, now 3 – a fall of of 93%. Or, as Trump maths would have it – a fall of 1300%.
  • The Melania coin: Reached 8 dollars, but now 30 cents. A fall of 96%, etc.

One wonders if they lose sleep over the poor cult members who lost savings.

Can you believe it? Of course you can. Trump puts his (macho) foto on US passports. With his signature written in gold . . .

Good to know that Melania is a White House insider threat to Trump. Podcast Video

How the British king managed to humiliate Trump – impressing even an Irish-American.

Russia

Spanish

  • Enjuagar: To rinse, wash.
  • Loa: Praise
  • Ficus: Rubber plant

English

Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary defines dross as “the recrement or despumation of metals.”

Did you know about?

The murder of William Desmond-Taylor.

Finally . . . You Have to Laugh

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