Category: Theatre

water pressure

MSNBC has a good short piece from AP’s Mort Rosenblum on the water crisis that many people in this bit of the Mediterranean would like to ignore. Put very simply, we have no moral right to lecture the Bush administration on sustainability so long as we ourselves continue to elect politicians – and I’m including…

Passionate kisses

I’ll bet you’re grateful that I didn’t call this Chirac kisses … OK, just forget it. Mark Doyle did a little analysis of a recent presidential snog-in, concluding that Jacques had punished Mugabe severely by not kissing him even once; some of you might beg to differ. Chirac may have only given Laura one, as…
Mme Chirac & George Bush.

Aznar’s shoes

The FT has Mariano Rajoy “stepping out from the imposing shadow of Mr Aznar.” Aznar is, with all due respect, a fucking dwarf.

Ooh I really hate that Tony Blair, by Rafael Ramos

Those of you with a memory longer than those interesting socks your boss is wearing this morning may remember that I pointed out in May that Rafael Ramos, La Vanguardia’s correspondent in London, appeared to be semi-literate, prone to invention, and a plagiarist. When I complained to the paper’s ombudsman, Josep Maria Casasús, he emailed…