Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.

But what was Rosa Díez actually trying to say before she so expertly inserted foot into mouth?

Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.

Every 9th Canarian nationalist councillor has a problem, and the left looks to be in worse trouble than the right nationally.

Is Silvio a cyborg?

Variation in air traffic numbers throws interesting light on Spain’s problems as it plunges into recession.

“They will respect neither the putrefied corpses of high whores nor the imbecilic devotion of the wage earner to his master’s money.”

But is the prevailing Spanish refusal to distinguish racism from multiculturalism actually more sensible than the Anglocabrón approach?

Nice one from Ignacio Escolar, who quotes Luke and asks who’s playing Judas in this photo.

German and Spanish approaches to rehabilitation of what may or may not have been anti-fascists.

The logo of Front Reusenc is borrowed from the British neo-Nazi party, the National Front.

This is deputy Rosa Díez of the newly formed party, Unión Progreso y Democracia. Today is of course the day we commemorate the Massacre of the Innocents, Spain’s April Fool’s Day: “Sin embargo de que todo esto es verdad, el aniversario de ese gran dia se celebra de una manera tan anómala, que á nosotros [...]

As private banker to dozens of Andalusian officials I have been responsible for maintaining the padded mattress sector in work this year. Before the summer a client called to complain that inflation threatened to render worthless the not particularly hard-earned stash of 500s he maintains under one of my beds. But there is more [...]

I know a quite considerable number of clever, balanced Italians, and I also believe that there are millions more out there. Tragically none of them seem to show the slightest inclination to get involved in their country’s political process, which is left to people like Berlusconi, who, while not a new class of José Antonios [...]