Good fisking by John Chappell of a completely nonsensical piece by a troll who calls himself Ignacio Russell Cano and who publishes in the Jerusalem Post. Has the author ever visited Spain? I doubt it, but there’s a considerable volume of native anti-Zapatero lying to deal with as well–check out RMF at fum i estalzí…
Dave has kindly sent me the URL of the online version of a superb book packed with brilliant photos, The story of the Tour de France by Bill and Carol McGann, who in their spare time run Torelli, a Californian racing gear import business. Dave liked the blinding of Honoré Barthélémy story quoted in the…
For a modernising party, Ciutadans have got off to a terrible start in their dealings with the new media, including some quite startling and prolonged incompetence in dealing with the guys at Nihil Obstat and Barcepundit. Now it seems that Ernesto Hernández Busto has been told by those on high to turn off Ciutadans en…
WonkaPistas has done the numbers. S/he also kicks around the notion of a direct relationship between a fall in the PSC vote and a rise in that of ICV or IpC or whatever the commies call themselves.
… inter alia in El Papiol and Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, where voters were apparently unable to exercise their right to vote Ciutadans. El Correo Gallego carries the Europa Press story on the former incident, which describes Ciutadans–sigh!–as a “nationalist formation.” Turnout is very low which in a screwed-up kind of way is probably good…
Check the absolutely gorgeous photo by Santi Cogolludo of Albert Rivera in La Paloma, The Dove, on today’s El Mundo front page. The hall opened in the 1890s as a vice den called The White Camellia but changed its name and image in 1903, taking its interior design from Paris and its new name from…