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The Spanish Disaster: Krugman doesn't know the half of it

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Sunday, 5 May 2013. Krugman doesn't know the half of it. Mario Draghi is as ambiguous a figure as a public executioner can be. A strange thing to say, since unlike most executioners he doesn't wear a mask: but unlike most executioners, he has the power to stay the execution even as he carries it out. He kills you with one hand and saves you with the other. Krugman, who one reads in much the same spirit as one might take an antidote to poison, wrote. And later when I took my shot of Krugman. Cut more,...

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The Spanish Disaster: The cleansing and the pure

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Sunday, 28 April 2013. The cleansing and the pure. En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. The previous day had been the first in a three-day continuous reading. Of Don Quijote at the Círculo de Bellas Artas de Madrid. Anyway, not a fortnight before this reading, I heard. The last book I read was Paul Preston's The Spanish Holocaust, written about the days when Spanish...

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The Spanish Disaster: July 2012

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Thursday, 26 July 2012. Valencia has applied to the central government in Madrid for financial assistance, being unable to cut its budget to the extent required of it. Murcia has followed suit. Catalunya has joined them. According to El País, writing. Just before Murcia made its application, Castilla La Mancha, Andalucía and Canarias are likely to follow. In Spain, however, it has not escaped our notice that Valencia is a major stronghold, perhaps the. Murcia, for its part, is as rightwing a province as ...

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The Spanish Disaster: April 2013

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Sunday, 28 April 2013. The cleansing and the pure. En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. The previous day had been the first in a three-day continuous reading. Of Don Quijote at the Círculo de Bellas Artas de Madrid. Anyway, not a fortnight before this reading, I heard. The last book I read was Paul Preston's The Spanish Holocaust, written about the days when Spanish...

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The Spanish Disaster: August 2012

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Sunday, 26 August 2012. Noises in the night. The night before the night before we went on holiday, I heard noises, past three in the morning, in the street. People were talking: perhaps not loudly, but the thinness of the street and the thickness of the walls often seems to magnify any noise that takes place just outside. She lives with her son, M, a farmer, who that night was away in Huesca, at a dance club, and we didn't have his number. Nobody seemed to have his number: R called JM, concejal. For now,...

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The Spanish Disaster: May 2013

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Sunday, 5 May 2013. Krugman doesn't know the half of it. Mario Draghi is as ambiguous a figure as a public executioner can be. A strange thing to say, since unlike most executioners he doesn't wear a mask: but unlike most executioners, he has the power to stay the execution even as he carries it out. He kills you with one hand and saves you with the other. Krugman, who one reads in much the same spirit as one might take an antidote to poison, wrote. And later when I took my shot of Krugman. Cut more,...

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The Spanish Disaster: June 2012

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Wednesday, 27 June 2012. Cows of death unknown. Did they jump or were they pushed? Sixty-one heifers fell to their deaths off a cliff near Aragüés del Puerto, a village in the Pyrenees off the Hecho road. (Beyond that is la Selva de Oza, one of my favourite places in Spain.). Nobody knows how they came to do this. It's been assumed that somebody or something chased. As suspects, seeing as their movements are monitored. The ganaderos are demanding the regional government solve the mystery, insisting.

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The Spanish Disaster: You'd know what a Draghi it is to see you

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Sunday, 17 February 2013. You'd know what a Draghi it is to see you. On the Tuesday, we were in Madrid. So, as it happens, was Mario Draghi, addressing the Congress of Deputies, the Spanish equivalent of the House of Commons. This, you would think, was an important event, and so it was. This, you would think, was important enough to be broadcast to the Spanish people, the electorate. But it was not. The individual responsible for this outrage - and it was an outrage - was, strictly speaking, Jesús Posada.

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The Spanish Disaster: What we did and didn't see

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Saturday, 23 February 2013. What we did and didn't see. I expected a march to come round the corner without warning, like the car in Blow-Up, but it never did. From where I was, high up on a hill, I could see down into the city centre, and across to the ludicrous, overblown station with its disused cable-car connection to the park where the Expo. Took place, and I even wondered whether the sound had carried up the hill from some other part of the city on one of Zaragoza's characteristic winds. Dictating ...

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The Spanish Disaster: March 2013

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Tuesday, 19 March 2013. Everybody still talks about how badly they were shocked. It was a fait accompli. They had made their decision before the meeting had even begun. They don't care. They want Cyprus to be the guinea pig. They want to see if this thing works. If it does, then perhaps Spain or Italy will be next. If it doesn't, then who cares about Cyprus? We did transfer a few thousand to a UK account last May, when Bankia was failing and we thought this might be the point where the economic collapse ...