Cataluña, with its great port of Barcelona as the hub, has always been a region (or community) known for diligence, hard work, initiative and brains. It used to…
Goosepimples
The Great Magistrate Pascual Sala, president of a politically correct invention called The Constitutional Court, recently found national reaction to his tribunal’s latest comedy ‘frightening’. It gave him…
M. Strauss Kahn
News from New York suggests that the former Director of the IMF may not have tried to rape a hotel employee. It adds that M. Strauss-Khan may have…
Supreme and Constitutional
Next year the general election in Spain will choose which of the two major political parties will struggle on for another four years; the economy in ruins, the…
GM and BM in the 21st century
Good manners are the means by which we become and remain civilized in a far from civilized world. Good manners have nothing to do with ‘class’ or ‘Society’…
The Swastika and the Clenched Fist
Believe it or not, the word comes from the Sanskrit svastika, and the nearest translation would be ‘conducive to well-being’. The swastika is an ancient emblem, taking the…
The (almost) Black and Tans in Ireland
With the open admission that there has always been conflict between Ireland and England, probably since the Dark Ages, it was noted in the 1920s that ‘Irish Troubles’…
Philip Duke of Edinburgh
The Duke hits Ninety The Queen’s consort of six decades is 90. He has had what he calls ‘a good innings’. He is very popular with many in…
Who replaces Strauss-Khan in France?
Since the ex-Head of the IMF has been disgraced for not keeping himself under control in a New York hotel suite, the question of who French socialists can…
Spain: Pyrrhic Victories
In Spain the regional community, town hall and city mayoral elections were recently celebated right across the country. It would be true to say that the elections again…