Says David Maeztu re the anti-Yankee, but far more widely applicable, IP reform. The desertion of public opinion by both PP and PSOE to collaborate with proportionately insignificant peripheral nationalisms at least makes political sense: the systematic electoral underweighting of small national parties means that you’re unlikely to be able to deal profitably with them in a hung parliament. But the abandonment of the centre, again by both PP and PSOE, on issues like abortion and IP is surely down to thievery and/or lunacy.
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Another good piece, from Menéame.