Homage to Catalonia

Some old but still rather smelly garbage has been dug up in Spain for re-burial in less ostentatious surroundings, in what the country's acting prime minister has called "a step towards reconciliation." Presumably he meant reconciliation between supporters of the traitor who led a military coup against his country's legal government, and those moderate patriots who believe that peaceful opposition to the kingdom as presently constituted should be punished with imprisonment rather than death. A number of less circumspect persons, including servants of the Great Dictator in the Sky, turned out to commemorate the ludicrous Antonio Tejero, who had the dubious honour of being the farce that succeeded the Franco tragedy. It remains as yet unclear what length of prison sentence will be imposed on those who sloganised, saluted and displayed fascist-era flags while the trash was taken out.