Business over Tapas 584

A digest of this week's Spanish financial, political and social news aimed primarily
at Foreign Property Owners:
Prepared by Lenox Napier. Consultant: José Antonio Sierra

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May 29 2025 Nº 584

Editorial:
From late last week, El País reported that the PSOE is shaking up the housing market with a battery of tax measures. The Socialist parliamentary group has introduced a bill in Congress to increase the taxes payable on vacant housing, to tax foreign (non-resident) home buyers and to raise the IVA on tourist apartments. The article begins: ‘The PSOE has pulled out all the stops to address the housing crisis in Spain. The Socialist Parliamentary Group submitted a broad bill to the Congress of Deputies this past Thursday to ease congestion in the residential market, with measures aimed at limiting tourist apartments, curbing home purchases by non-resident foreigners, ensuring the sustainability of public housing stock, and incentivizing lower rental prices...'.
elDiario.es begins with ‘The Government announces a tax increase on vacant homes. The Socialist parliamentary group has approved a tax package that, according to Minister Rodríguez, increases the taxation of vacant homes "to encourage them to become part of residential rentals"’. The government wants to use tax pressure to bring an extra three million vacant homes onto the market. The plan is to encourage the release of vacant properties by gradually increasing the amount charged to their owners in personal income tax from 1.1% to 3%. Some experts consider this an insufficient amount for the measure to be effective.
The Majorca Daily Bulletin says ‘Spain pushes ahead with 100 percent sales tax on home buys by non-resident Britons and Americans. Real estate agents and lawyers doubt that it will ever be introduced’. Spanish Property Insight also singles out British and American private buyers: ‘The Socialist governing party pushes forward with plans to tax foreign non-resident buyers from outside the EU, mainly Brits and Americans’. It begs the question – who should take precedence in the Spanish housing crisis as far as the Spanish authorities are concerned?
Bloomberg says that ‘Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party presented the plan as part of a broader housing bill submitted to Parliament on Thursday. The bill seeks to promote “measures that enable access to housing, since we are facing one of the largest problems our society is currently confronted with”’.
One thing is clear – the 100% tax proposal is aimed primarily at the mainly foreign investment funds (fondos buitres) who buy city blocks to put them out to rent. Google’s AI gives this answer: ‘There is no precise data on how many homes are owned by vulture funds in Spain, but it is estimated that a significant number, although not yet precisely defined, exist. Fifty-seven percent of homes in Spain are owned by funds and multi-owners. It is estimated that 15% of homes are owned by vulture funds, and 42% are owned by owners with more than three homes’. Google AI on ‘Vulture Funds’: ‘These are investment firms that buy assets at discounted prices when they are in financial distress, with the expectation of turning them around for profit’.
The other string is to tax the tourist apartments controlled by Airbnb and their competitors at a rate of 21% IVA There are currently some 400,000 tourist apartments in Spain. elDiario.es has a useful map of their location.
From The Times we read that ‘Spain has banned some Airbnbs. This is why they’re right to do so. In a bid to solve the country’s housing crisis, 66,000 short-term lets have been taken off the market...’ The writer says: ‘Do any of us wish to be complicit in the eviction of ordinary people to increase the income of certain homeowners? Do we want our presence in Barcelona, Palma, Madrid, Seville or Las Palmas to be welcomed or resented? Rented apartments almost always beat hotels on price: next weekend £350 will get you either a twin-bedded cupboard in a three-star hotel in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol or, a few streets away, an entire former residential apartment that sleeps four and has an outdoor terrace. But, is bagging that bargain the most important consideration here?’
Several major plans by the Government – all designed to help resolve the housing crisis for the Spaniards.

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Housing:

From El País here: ‘Renting a room in Barcelona now costs 1,000 euros: "My entire apartment costs less than a room upstairs". Coliving options, which allow you to circumvent the price cap, are proliferating thanks to investment companies that buy entire buildings...’

El Huff Post brings: ‘A survey shows that the majority of Germans want to leave the country, and Spain follows just behind the German-speaking Switzerland and Austria for new destinations. Much more than beaches and beer, Spain ranks as the third most popular destination for Germans who want to leave their homeland’.

‘Which nationalities have the highest number of residence permits in Málaga? The number of non-EU nationals authorised to live legally in the province has doubled in the last decade, to almost 134,000’ – From Sur in English here. Britons, Ukranians and Moroccans, apparently.

Idealista brings us ‘The Costa del Sol shifts from tourist hotspot to smart real estate investment. Once purely tourist, the Costa del Sol is now a top spot for living and investment’.

‘Developer emphasises the investor advantages of Spanish off-plans’. I’ve also seen adverts, elsewhere, for ‘equity release’ (sell your house to an agency and continue to live there, perhaps paying a small rental). Neither of these is necessarily a good idea.

Even worse, a company advertises that it will buy your share of a home (many people leave their property to their children rather than selling it before they die).

On the threat of a 100% sales tax on homes for non-EU buyers – maybe one can try the old dodge of buying a property through the bank leaving the bank as the titular owner.

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Tourism:

In Spain, the beach (and access to it) belongs to the public. However at Xataka, there’s a fuss. ‘"They're privatizing the beach": In Málaga, mega-beach bars are taking over the city's bathing areas. The renovation of several beach bars in La Malagueta has sparked criticism from local residents. "They've tripled the space occupied on the beach and doubled the volume," they complain’. Málaga is a major tourist destination and ‘…La Malagueta, one of the most popular areas in Andalucía, is famous for its beach, restaurants, shops, and chiringuitos. In recent months, however, some of these food and drink palaces have drawn criticism from residents. The reason: their redevelopment plans…’

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Finance:

The Telegraph says: ‘The stench of a cover-up hangs over Spain’s giant blackout, the worst electricity failure in any developed country in modern times. Faith in the current investigation has reached rock-bottom. The socialist government of Pedro Sánchez is trying to buy time with explanations that either make no technical sense or veer into absurdity...’ 20Minutos reports that ‘The Moncloa denies that the blackout was caused by a government "experiment" with renewable energy. They claim that the information published by the British newspaper The Telegraph is wrong’. The specialist site ENTSO-E (wiki) says it is working on an answer to the events surrounding the blackout noting that ‘at the moment of the incident, there were no oscillations and the power system variables were within normal operation range’.
The timing of another major blackout, this time in the South of France (including Cannes) on Saturday, just one day after The Telegraph’s bile, was just an unfortunate coincidence, although it now appears to be sabotage!
France, by the way, gets around 60% of its energy production from nuclear.

Reaction to the Government plan to reduce the working week from 40 to 37.5 hours by the end of 2025, as reported by elDiario.es here: ‘The employers' association of Mercadona, Dia, Lidl, and Aldi leads the business protests against the reduction in working hours. The association representing the major supermarket chains (Asedas) estimates that it would cost their companies €630 million annually and "put jobs at risk." In short – Mercadona (profits reported in 2024: 1,394 million euros) could make some cuts to appease its shareholders. On the other hand, maybe they could hire on extra staff...

elDiario.es again: ‘The Government approves regulations for accessing early retirement for arduous and dangerous professions. The procedure will take into account job losses and mortality rates, among other factors, and may be initiated by unions, self-employed groups, employers' associations, and the Public Administration’.

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Politics:

As we know, the two main political parties are vying, neck and neck, to find the most cases of corruption or inability within the other group – fair or foul.
Making the country a better place for all is a nice thought, but sinking the other side with some scandal is so much nicer.
The Corner, a conservative English-language Spanish webpage, found it too good to resist: ‘David Sánchez, the Prime Minister’s brother, will go to trial for influence peddling and prevarication (deception). The judge who investigated the case concluded that after Pedro Sánchez mentioned his brother was a musician, the PSOE leader in Extremadura, Miguel Angel Gallardo, created an ad hoc job for him as coordinator of the two music conservatories in Badajoz, whose provincial council Gallardo presided over’. The point that the mildly ineffectual David has been in the same job since 2017 – long before his brother became president – appears to be lost to The Corner, and one wonders if he only had of had a less visible brother whether there’d even be a case after all. The poor fellow uses the name David Azagra which looks like he doesn’t seek notoriety. He’s hardly another Juan Guerra (remember him? Alfonso Guerra’s businessman brother).
As far as Sánchez’ wife Begoña Gómez goes, well we’ve been entertained now for over a year without any outcome. But Judge Peinado, encouraged by the knuckle-dragging Manos Limpias with their sheaf of press-cuttings from OKDiario, continues his (apparently) final investigation with unalloyed enthusiasm.
Another case against the PSOE, where the Attorney General (a political post) was accused of publicising the confession of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend, without any proof, has since collapsed after several journalists had stepped forward to say they knew about the activities of the boyfriend a couple of days earlier. Indeed, now the lawyer for the boyfriend, Alberto González Amador, admits in court that he sent out the confession (in the hope of leniency).
Summing up, El Plural says: ‘Gómez, Sánchez, and García: Three Judicial Cases Under Suspicion. It's impossible to ignore the stench of bias in the cases of Pedro Sánchez's wife, Pedro Sánchez's brother, and the Attorney General appointed by Pedro Sánchez’.
However, the main scandal for the PSOE is the ex-minister José Luis Ábalos, who was summarily fired from both his post and from the party in February last year by Pedro Sánchez when the accusations of impropriety first arose (his lieutenant Koldo García is under investigation for massive tax fraud during the Covid crisis).
Over on the Partido Popular bench, the leading stories are the problems with Carlos Mazón in Valencia (following the October flooding there) and then there’s the issue of Ayuso’s boyfriend’s activities (he is accused of tax fraud). A more immediate problem for Ayuso – sometimes seen as the next leader of the PP – is the accusation levied by the court towards three of her senior officials regarding the refusal to give medical aid to the elderly trapped in residences during the Covid crisis known as ‘the protocol of shame’ (‘they would have died anyway’ said Ayuso in a regrettable parliamentary outburst). Unfortunately, the Monday appointment with the judge was abruptly postponed at the last moment.
7,291 veterans died in Madrid – apparently due at least in part to this dereliction of duty.
Then there’s the forthcoming surprise PP congress brought forward a year to early next month to be held in Madrid (Feijóo oddly announcing it by saying, ‘the Pope had a conclave, now it’s my turn’). As Pedro Sánchez asked him in Parliament: ‘are you going to make changes? Weren’t you ready before?’
We shall find out the answer to that one on July 6th.
Perhaps things will all settle down in a few weeks’ time.
Who am I kidding?
Just to make the two points that the above reflections come from items found in the Spanish media (as collated by me), and that neither I nor indeed most of my readers have The Vote in national elections in Spain, making my recent essays on Spanish politics theoretical rather than practical.

‘The Spanish Church speaks out for the first time on Israel's genocide in Gaza: "These are acts of ethnic cleansing"’. elDiario.es has the story.

From elDiario.es here: ‘The EU's U-turn on Israel and the Episcopal Conference's (i.e., the Spanish Catholic Church’s) condemnation confuse Feijóo. The opposition leader is trying to correct his position amid the cacophony of the far-right wing of the PP, having used the Middle East as ammunition against Sánchez for months and now seeing the international majority in favour of ignoring the call against Netanyahu start to crumble’. El País says: ‘The Partido Popular repositions itself after the EU's about-turn and calls on Israel to halt its offensive against the population in Gaza. Feijóo speaks out after days of silence and maintains a balanced stance, blaming Hamas for the Palestinian suffering’. On Sunday, Spain became even more involved, by hosting an international forum in Madrid to discuss ways to pressure Israel into ending the war in the Gaza Strip. Deutsche Welle has ‘Spain hosts European, Arab nations to pressure Israel’. Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares told reporters that "Silence in these moments is complicity in this massacre... that is why we are meeting’. From El Mundo (Wednesday) here: ‘The PSOE bows to pressure from Sumar and its partners: the law on the embargo against Israel will be urgently processed in Congress. The text encompasses all military equipment and fuel, but also dual-use equipment, such as that used by riot police or the police’.

From Público here: ‘The government believes that far-right radicalism "may constitute a terrorist threat." The 2024 National Security Report warns of the rise in far-right radicalism over the past year’. From the National Security Council: "During 2024, far-right radicalism has increased its presence in Europe and Spain, where organized networks spread nationalist and xenophobic ideologies," it says. The report highlights that "one of the predominant narratives is the rejection of immigration, promoted largely through social media"…’

The ABC reports that ‘Felipe González sends a warning to Pedro Sánchez: "If you don't stop him, Putin will one day reach the Algeciras border". The former Prime Minister sat down for the second time with Pablo Motos (host of a TV chat show called El Hormiguero) to analyse current political events and recall some key moments from his more than thirteen years as Prime Minister’. Felipe: "The PSOE doesn't have a national project. You can't govern by building walls. We have politicians in Spain who seem to agree on everything as soon as they cross the Pyrenees, and as soon as they descend, they don't agree on anything". Thus Felipe, in his time, a staunch socialist. On the other hand, the other PSOE ex-President, José Luis Zapatero, is much closer to Sánchez.

From El Huff Post here: ‘José María Aznar, former Prime Minister, considers that “there is a climate of civil war in Spain and that Spain is heading toward a dictatorship”’.

The original agreement between Pedro Sánchez to get the Junts per Catalunya party in his corner was to agitate in the EC to allow Catalán, Euskera and Galego to become official European languages. Putting the number of official tongues up from 24 (here) to 27 (there are plenty of others, if we came down to it). El Mundo says that Vox is claiming that they were asked by the PP to help influence a negative vote in Brussels.
Without the European approval, Junts will return to blocking Government policies.
On Tuesday, the EC postponed the vote while other countries looked at the additional costs (and the likelihood that someone would suddenly say ‘Hey, what about Corsican, or Luxembourgish…?’). A full list of European languages is at Wiki here. As an alcoholic friend of mine says, I speak three languages: English, Spanish and Gibberish.

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Valencia:

There’s no doubt but that the progressive parties would like to see the President of the Valencian Region Carlos Mazón leave office. Mazón (despite claims to the contrary from the PP) was incommunicado during the Valencia floods late last October which killed 227 people. He was, by all accounts, in a restaurant all afternoon with his phone switched off with a lady journalist who, despite her profession, won’t say a word.
From 20Minutos here: ‘Pedro Sánchez promises the victims of the DANA to visit the ground zero, to channel the ravines that overflowed, and to hold a secular state funeral on the first anniversary of the flood. The president met for three hours with the three associations representing the families of 150 deceased’.
From elDiario.es here: ‘Mazón's Partido Popular calls the victims of the DANA received by Sánchez, Von der Leyen, and González Pons as leftist (!)’.
On Friday last week, Carlos Mazón called the three associations and asked to hold a meeting with them says RTVE here. On Monday, Mazón denied that there has been a veto on the associations of victims of the Dana from the ongoing investigation says EFE here.

Today, Thursday, two major protests against Carlos Mazón are planned for the city.

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Europe:

Opinion from The Guardian here: ‘From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort’.

From NBC News here: ‘Trump's tariff threat risks a trade war with Europe years in the making. Trump's threat to impose 50% tariffs on imports from the E.U. is just the latest attack. It comes amid a broader souring of relations and after months of economic sparring’.
‘Such a high tariff raises the risk of a eurozone recession that would also drag down Spain’, says elDiario.es here. Although Spain will likely be less affected by the tariffs than most other major European economies (they export less to the USA) and the Government had prepared funds back in April (in anticipation of a 20% tariff) to help businesses and industries that could be targeted (the PP and Vox voting, of course, against).
Finally, a last-minute delay, says 20Minutos, agreed by Trump and Von del Leyen, now gives until July 9th to come to some arrangement before the 50% tariffs kick in.

Could the euro dethrone the dollar amid economic instability? That's what the president of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde says. Opinion piece from CNN Español here.

Text from la Conferencia Episcopal de España, the Spanish Church, regarding Israel:
"To achieve a situation of 'justice, peace, truth and fraternity', as Pope Leo XIV has been calling for, it is urgent and imperative to end the siege of the population, as well as the attacks on hospitals, the bombing of the civilian population, the systematic destruction of infrastructure and neighbourhoods, and the denial of humanitarian assistance, which constitute a violation of the most basic human rights and international humanitarian law, acts of occupation equivalent to ethnic cleansing".

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Health:

Público says that the reasons why Spain’s public health system is dying: investment cuts and privatization.

Several regions of Spain are notorious for encouraging the growth of private health firms while underspending on La Sanidad Pública – Public Health. Andalucía is one, and Madrid another. On Sunday, a large protest was held in Madrid. El Huff Post reported: ‘Tens of thousands of people take to the streets to denounce the "unsustainable situation" of public healthcare in Madrid. According to Government sources, 30,000 people attended. Neighbourhood associations, platforms, and organizations have criticized the "deliberate neglect" of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's government. "Public health is everyone's right," they said’.

From The Olive Press here: ‘A life-saving tuberculosis vaccine has been created by Spanish scientists – but it needs a €20 million boost’. We read that ‘Carlos Martin, a microbiologist and professor at the University of Zaragoza has been researching the deadly disease for over 25 years. He hopes to finish his research in 2028, ready for the drug to be commercialised in 2029. However, they cannot produce a version of the vaccine for babies without a significant cash injection’.

‘A tender for the new Málaga hospital has been launched for €607.5 million’, says the Junta de Andalucía website. The estimated completion time is a little over six years away. The hospital will be gigantic, with ‘…815 rooms, an emergency department with 31 medical consultation rooms, eight nursing rooms, and 61 observation beds. It will also have 80 ICU beds and a surgical suite with 48 operating rooms. Regarding outpatient clinics, there will be 158 rooms for medical specialties and 38 for nursing, as well as a dedicated area for teaching and research…’ The hospital will be under the control of the regional health authority, the SAS.

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Corruption:

Spain’s National Security agency accuses Russia of launching a disinformation campaign during the DANA tragedy. The 2024 report by the department headed by General Loreto Gutiérrez Hurtado refers to a "pro-Kremlin propaganda and disinformation ecosystem."

It’s a murky tale, but the lawyer of ‘el novio de Ayuso’ told the judge this week ‘…that on January 30, 2024, he obtained the mandate from Alberto González Amador to reach a plea agreement with the Prosecutor's Office in exchange for admitting two tax offenses, and he sent an email to the Court on February 2’. This all helps to let the beleaguered Attorney General off the hook. InfoLibre has the story.

Amazon España was hacked late last year and over five million pieces of data – names, account numbers, ID numbers, phones are – according to El Confidencial here – now on sale in the Dark Web! Allegedly.

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Courts:

From El Independiente here: ‘The Police arrest the former PP Secretary of State for the Interior Francisco Martínez together with the hacker José Luis Huertas 'Alcasec' in a case before the National Court. They are investigating organized crime, money laundering, and computer damage, among others, for accessing public and private databases and leaking information in exchange for money…’

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Media:

I almost ran this item last week, but it didn’t smell right. The RTVE warns that the story of the United States telling citizens not to travel to Spain and that there was an ongoing terror alert here was a hoax.

Bullfights have become political in Spain. The conservative voter likes them, the progressive one doesn’t (so easy, if not entirely accurate). Público froths about a poster in Gijón that says ‘Two Years of Liberty’ with the picture of a bullfighter – celebrating the return of the PP to City Hall.

From elDiario.es here: ‘The Partido Popular intensifies its control of regional television channels while attacking the national TVE. The PP is changing laws, imposing similar profiles in regions such as the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community, and redoubling pressure on its public media in Galicia and Madrid ahead of the election cycle, while Feijóo, Ayuso, and the national leadership are railing against TVE’. (Certainly, the news presented or discussed on the regional channels Canal Sur, TeleValencia – now called À Punt, or TeleMadrid is strongly biased). El Mundo says that El Consejo de Informativos de RTVE (the in-house news council) has announced the opening of an investigation into the lack of "plurality, rigor, independence, and neutrality" of two news programs: Mañaneros 360 (Javier Ruiz) and Malas Lenguas (Jesús Cintora). The worry appears to be that these shows are getting high audience numbers at the expense of Ana Rosa Quintana (Telecinco) and Pablo Motos (Antena3).

How to get the reportage that suits. Hand them some cash, or place ‘institutional advertising’ in their medium. From El Salto Diario reporting from Madrid here: ‘Ayuso and Almeida have injected more than 400,000 euros into Periodista Digital in four years. Alfonso Rojo's media outlet is the one that employs the agitator Bertrand Ndongo’.

Echoing my last week’s editorial, here from the official PSOE webpage El Socialista: ‘Harassment by extremists on land, sea, and air. It's not a campaign. It's a hunt. ... They've turned politics into a battlefield where anything goes to destroy the adversary. Especially if they're on the left. And if they can't win at the polls, they try harder: shouting more, insulting more, lying more...’

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Ecology:

Público has a piece on the black fly or midge, popularly known as the ‘noseeum’, which is a tiny biting fly found near rivers and flowing water.

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Various:

RTVE recalls the Trout Mutiny video here. ‘A servant goes to the market to get a trout for his nobel master. The last one at the fish stand that morning, in Zamora, in 1158, had just been bought by a shoemaker. How could he possibly think of doing this? He's just a craftsman, a worker... The servant was perhaps afraid of losing his job, or his master's favour, so he started a scene. Nobles have more right to the last trout, of course!’ No one is sure exactly what happened, as it wasn’t recorded for posterity, but the Motín de la Trucha apparently went from bad to worse when the local nobels went into the church for a confab. The irate citizens of Zamora decided to lock the doors from the outside and burn the church down, killing those inside. They then fled en masse to neighbouring Portugal. Wiki says that the Spanish king Fernando II de León later forgave them and they were able to return home.

A fuss after it was revealed that the main organiser for concerts in Spain, including ViñaRock, is ‘a pro-Israeli fund called KKR’ (Wiki) A number of rock groups have now broken their relationshup with the concert-organiser. The list here.
El Salto Diario introduces the KKR vulture fund with ‘The pro-Israel fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, KKR, is expanding its reach within the Spanish state, diversifying into different sectors. It also holds a majority stake in the media conglomerate that offers housing in Palestinian territories. Since 2020, it has expanded its presence in education with the purchase of various national companies, also taking advantage of the privatization policies of this essential service by right-wing governments in regions such as Madrid, Andalucía, and Galicia...’ In 2021, KKR acquired the Málaga-based education company MEDAC, the driving force behind the private online university UTAMED, endorsed by the Andalusian Regional Government and a leading company in the privatization of vocational training in the region.

A video from Pax Americana on YouTube called ‘What's Up With the Spanish Military?’

A video of a Spanish submarine on YouTube here. The title: ‘The Insane Engineering Behind Spain’s Deadly S-80 Submarine’.

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Letters:

Last week’s editorial about party politics and the art of manipulation brought a few letters.

Hi Lenox! I hope you are well and enjoy the gorgeous May weather, as long as it lasts!!
My memory is not that of younger days, but do not remember that I have ever seen one of your editorials so much in favour of leftist politicians. Latest polls do not indicate that Sánchez is as good/popular as you refer to him and was Aznar really one of Spain's worst modern presidents?? Do you get comments like these or is it only relatively outspoken me who wonders??
For whatever reasons, and despite my growing up as the youngest of five children in tough conditions on a small farm with a tuberculosis-hit father in post war Norway, I am a right leaning person and will most probably remain so until life one day ends.
Best from Ivar, who normally enjoys your weekly letter!

Hi Lenox
Thanks very much for another newsletter.
In your editorial it looks like – to me anyway – that you blame the right side for being more corrupt than the left side. I think this problem is evenly shared over the years.
Do not forget Chaves y Griñán in Andalucía – and all the charges against family Sánchez.
I am very sorry to see so much time lost on this item both in the Congress and in the Courts. Our good country should have grown out of this problem, even so it would never totally go away.
All the best from Harald

Viva Pedro! Arriba España! Best leader in Europe. Possibly the world!!! And thanks Lenox for all the reinforcing facts and figures.
Rosemary

The problem is that the US election of 2016 taught the world that the average voter doesn't research issues for themselves. They don't look up independent data on subjects and they don't engage in critical thinking about the source of information and what that source's motivation may be (a skill I remember being taught in A Level history many decades ago...perhaps it's no longer taught).
So is it any wonder that far-right parties and high-profile individuals fill online media with blatant falsities? It works. They are believed. People are now too lazy/uncaring/uneducated (pick your choice) to apply critical thinking and research to anything.... even when the blatantly false thing they decide to believe in has been calculated to ensure that people like them will come off worse.
Emma

Lenox. How do you get away with it? Writing the truth, I mean. If I try writing stuff like this, I get a call from the Guardia Civil. Spain a democracy with freedom of speech since 1977? Don't make me laugh. Keep it up please. I love it!
Paul

What a load of rubbish. No one wants this man in government.
He and his wife are totally corrupt, and you must be the only person who doesn't know this.
Jamie

Re The Doors, there’s another one I like: ‘Art for Art’s sake, money for God’s sake’.
Richard

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Finally:
Café Quijano perform Quiero on YouTube here.