Pedro Sánchez has spent almost three years swearing he would see out the parliamentary term. He has said it over 30 times, in Congress, in interviews, and at press conferences. Last week, following a weekend retreat he sold as a period of reflection, he appeared at La Moncloa to dissolve Parliament and […]
At this point and after fifteen days of the one track topic we could say something has gotten out of hand on both sides of the Atlantic. George Floyd was assassinated by the Minneapolis police on May 25, that is, three weeks ago. If at that time they would have tell us […]
A small controversy has arisen following a report on TVE about the series «Isabel» in which it was stated that the Catholic queen carried out an “ethnic cleansing’’. Well, it’s not true. Isabella of Castile who, like all the rulers in the world have been, has her lights and shadows, did nothing […]
There are many questions that arise after the Bolsonaro storm. The first and most important of all of them is if he will be able to avoid the ballot, predictably alone. The second is how and why the PT has collapsed and, in general, the Brazilian left-wing, the hegemonic force of the […]
The question that many Brits are asking themselves at this point; two and a half years after the referendum and five months before the official departure from the EU, is whether or not it deserves to go ahead. If we ask the economy, the answer is clear: no. At least in the […]
The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul has placed Western governments on the ropes. The regime has recognized it although diverting attention, trying – unsuccessfully, of course – to make us believe that this unfortunate incident had nothing to do with them, that these things happen under […]
Little by little, election after election the political map of Germany is redrawing. For many years now, the country has abandoned the CDU-SPD bipartisanship that characterized the first decades of the Bundesrepublik. But, in spite of this, both Christian Democrats and Social Democrats had managed to maintain control of the system. With […]
Human intelligence is one of the great mysteries that science has no quite managed to unravel. It’s not only about finding a satisfactory definition of intelligence, but how to grade it. We know we’re before someone intelligent but often cannot explain how we know, because intelligence is a set of traits which […]
Antigua, Guatemala is perhaps the best known colonial city in Central America. It is certainly the most studied and most admired by visitors from all over the world. Still, this little gem embedded in the heart of Guatemala holds secrets known only to its inhabitants. This is the case of “La Casa […]
Chesterton said that, unfortunately, when people quit believing in God believes in anything. He was right, and many facts along the last century demonstrate it to us. Slips of the reach and the extension of this commentary the reasons why human beings are, in addition to rationals, religious animals. The fact is […]
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