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Archive of entries posted on September 2010

Ye Olde New Labour (or The New Old Labour)

For those that are not in this planet, this past week there has been a Labour Party Conference in Manchester, following the fight for the title which resulted in the win and defeat of one of the Milliband Bros. However, this is not the reason of this post. It is something which says a lot [...]

Política es…

“El mundo se divide en conservadores y progresistas; el objetivo de los progresistas es cometer cada vez nuevos errores, mientras que el objetivo de los conservadores es evitar que esos errores se corrijan.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Tontería supina

Ahora resulta que un parado que asiste a cursillos de formación es una persona que, en realidad, “trabaja para el país”. Es lo que dijo ayer (13/09/2010) el presidente del Gobierno español en la cumbre de empleo organizada en Noruega por la Organización Internacional del Trabajo y el Fondo Monetario Internacional. El problema gordo, de [...]

Coherencia informativa

Me ha alegrado soberanamente que una noticía de un suceso se halla compuesto como Dios manda, sin dejar nada al aire. Para no darnos lugar a dudas, oiga! Fuentes de la Jefatura Superior de Policía han informado que el fallecido es Juan Carlos H. P, natural de Ecuador, mientras que el supuesto autor de la [...]

Replies…

This is a reply to the comments in the previous post.  I agree with María in the interestingness-ness of the topic, and I am happy to waste my whole morning blabbing about it María, Maybe I was a bit biased when I spoke of “indoctrination”. I was merely meaning “aborregamiento”. What the coalition is trying [...]

In the language of Shakespeare…

I have always been fiddling with the idea of whether to write in English or Spanish. I guess I decided Spanish because I know more Spanish speeakers which were more likely to read my blabbing. But I think I am going to mix languages now, while I devise a way of creating 2 blogs in [...]