Friday, March 29

📩 NEWSLETTER | Dracula, beets and polls


Good tuesday. Grab a coffee or something and let’s get down to business.

where does the day go

Will it have been worth it?

Cold sweats in Genoa. Surveys on the elections in Castilla y León This Sunday they project some disturbing results for the PP. Support for the PP is lower now in the campaign than at the time the early elections were called, a month and a half ago. The operation was aimed at an absolute majority, killing Ciudadanos with a stroke of the pen, and now the situation may force them to change Ciudadanos for Vox, and even put victory at risk. The PP, according to the polls, is in free fall. Is it worth the risk to end up changing Citizens for Vox? look at this data.


Pablo Casado has gone on the attack to contain the rise of Voxwho is the one who is capitalizing on the electoral advance in the polls.

today on the podcast On the one hand, we analyze what options each party has, we ask ourselves if surprise is really possible and we tell you why these elections are so important for the president of the PP.


  • And interview with Luis TudancaPSOE candidate for the presidency of Castilla y León, who sets off the alarm over the possible entry of Vox into the Government.
  • in the ruckus permanent anything goes because everything is forgotten. Do you remember that until yesterday the PP and many media spoke of a computer error in the vote on the labor reform? Well, not anymore. Ignacio Escolar does not want to let escape this new lie and exposes it in detail in his article today.

Salaries and masks

The ‘productivity’ of the Government in labor matters does not stop. Far from being afraid of social dialogue after the bittersweet approval of the reform voted last week, the Ministry of Labor is already on the following and proposes a rise in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage up to 1,000 euros per month for this same year.



A pleasant evening

The photo of the day is this.

They are Vladimir Putin (far left) and Emmanuel Macron (far right), gathered in Moscow. They couldn’t have come to blows even if they wanted to, but it seems that the conversation has even been fruitful. It lasted five hours and they have dined together. “Let’s start building a useful response for Russia, useful for Europe, that will allow war to be avoided,” Macron said. Putin has for his part been gracious about French efforts to resolve the conflict. Macron will also visit Ukraine.

  • War in times of COVID. By the way, a side issue that also influences the chances of armed conflict that we can see imminently: the pandemic right now does not look good in Ukraine or Russia. The spread of omicron among soldiers has forced the closure of military bases on the border.

don’t miss it

  • Giant. Can the stoppage of a single company be noticed in the great figures of electricity consumption of an entire country? Well yes. Spain has registered a 5% drop compared to 2021. Experts say that much of that drop has to do with the temporary closure of the aluminum factory that the multinational Alcoa has in San Cibrao (Lugo).
  • walk again. The hopeful news of the week is this: several paraplegics manage to walk again few hours after receiving an electrode implant. It is a development that has been tested since 2018, and is progressing well.

everything is politics

  • ‘Stay away’ from YouTube. There is a youtuber who recorded himself humiliating a homeless person in Barcelona. A judge punished him with a sentence that catches our attention: not being able to upload videos to YouTube for five years. A kind of ‘restraining order’ from the video platform. Now the Supreme must decide if such a sentence makes sense.
  • starwars It has always been a cultivation of political analogies that we have used ad nauseam to explain current affairs. But the other way around also happens: current events influence the new products of the Star Wars universe. This text reviews the masculinity of the Mandalorian and other new political nods to the new products of a factory that is now in the hands of Disney.
  • Young, slim and pretty. June Fernández publishes in Pikara a report that combines the doctoral thesis and personal testimonies about the tyranny of aesthetics towards journalists who work on television as reporters or presenters. “They transform us so much that later on the street people have a hard time recognizing us.”

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