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

The economy: More on the macro-micro divide when it comes to growth. Wages have stagnated for decades. And productivity growth is still poor.

Possibly related to working conditions . . . Spain leads Europe on worker absenteeism.

Better news . . . A French company is aiming to repeat its domestic success with a history theme park, on the outskirts of Toledo. It’s called Puy du Fou and it covers 1,500 years of Spanish history through theatrical shows. No roller coasters – just pure historical storytelling.

The Middle East War

The latest update from Naked Capitalism. The Deal is coming unglued.

The United States of Trump America

A man with a keen sense of proportion . . . Trump posted on Truth Social about golf balls.

The Art of the Deal . . .

It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the USA is being governed by ignorant simpletons, who have no idea what they are doing in the Middle East. Or elsewhere, of course.

• Trump – an hallucinating clown – picked the worst place in the world to sign his terrible deal with Iran.
• Trump’s surrender is the worst deal yet Podcast Video
• The deal is so bad that even his MAGA sycophants are in open revolt against him and his lies.
• Conservative pundits are trashing the White House’s memorandum of understanding. [Link no longer works. Try this.]

The obvious question arising . . . Who takes the fall for this disaster? Vance or Hegseth?

Spanish

• Conmoción: Outrage
• Intervenir a: To seize from.
• Coyuntura: Situation

English

Is one of these US and the other British?:-

• Third time’s a charm
• Third time lucky – The one I’m familiar with

Did you know?

How to remove AI spyware from your Google account.

You Have to Laugh

Another uncomfortable Finn . .

Finally . . .

In Pv city these days there’s one of those human statues, but a rather special one. It incorporates a stream of water that comes down into a bowl in the hand of flamboyantly dressed woman and flows back up in a circuit. Naturally, she’s only too pleased to pose for fotos. Quite impressive.

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