Nearsightedness is increasing, and there aren’t many other reasonable explanations.

Trademark theft to liven up the Spanish fruit and veg price-war?

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

What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El País, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, Público, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?

Party political prejudice, or yet more historical memory bollocks?

Link love for 01/06/2009.

Was S Felipe Neri the original big swinging dick?

If you believe crap like the stat in this post we’ll have you certified.

Gypsy clans living on an old dung heap north of Granada may have the answer.

Regular updates from Ali Baba’s cave.

It’s looking good, and who the hell cares if it’s unconstitutional?

Check out veteran socialist moderate Joaquín Leguina on the silence from both major parties re the abuse of judicial power when it suits their ends. And Ignacio Escolar has some interesting PP quotes from the last century. And UPyD says it can be fixed with legal and constitutional reform.

No serious politician in Spain lacks a hagiography, and they’re starting to flow thick and fast for Rosa Díez. I don’t believe in saviours (or saved), and parts of the UPyD programme are incoherent, but they’d have my vote on Sunday if I had one.

Spring is (almost) here, so it’s time to take a stroll and inspect councils’ stalled works programmes.

Judge Garzón would be ineligible for appointment to the judiciary in England and at the European Court, so why is he tolerated in Spain?

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

The Auken report to the European Parliament may be above to be scuppered by a conspiracy between Spain’s two principal mafias.

I struggle to believe that Graeme@South of Watford really believes that the PP is the only rampantly corrupt political party in Spain–maybe I just haven’t read enough of his posts–but here anyway (thanks to El Ciruco) is another nice example of PSOE trough management from their Andalusian fiefdom.
One suspects that few politicians here would [...]

El blog Ausente links to a piece by Rinzewind (which links etc etc) about Valdeluz. This is the settlement built in the desert outside Guadalajara and equipped with a high-speed train station in what appeared to be a corrupt development deal engineered by PP bigwigs Esperanza Aguirre and Álvarez Cascos with the blessing of PSOE [...]