Spanish Insight

If you mercilessly mock someone about their age, appearance or perceived inadequacies, that would be bullying, right?
Or is it OK when it's the national press doing the mocking and the victim is famous?
The thought occurred to me recently when I spotted the Mail's "Night of the Living Dead" front page after  the Stones did Glastonbury.   It is remarkable how the band keep on performing despite their advanced years but most people celebrate it rather...

There is light at the end of the railway tunnel.
The tide might just be turning against HS2, the nightmarish money pit of a plan to build high speed rail links between London, Birmingham and other Northern cities.
Currently only UKIP (see "The best and worst of UKIP") and a few MPs whose rural constituencies are in danger of being disfigured by the line against HS2....

Keynesians have been in confident assertive mood recently, claiming that the facts are bearing out their long-standing calls for more fiscal stimulus to "end this recession now", as their cheerleader-in-chief Paul Krugman put it.
They claim that the divergence between US and UK growth rates proves their case....

Yes everybody lies, and it's not just little white ones "to save their feelings".  It's just easier and more comfortable to say what will get the job done rather than what we think.  Here is my selection of the least sincere phrases around:
10.  “I am in a really weird place right now”...