To cover today's inflation with tomorrow's inflation

Right-wing newspapers have a rather endearing fondness for anticipating disasters when the PSOE is in power. You only have to look at the successive apocalypses they've predicted every time the minimum wage has been raised, which, like the end of the world announced by the Maya, have ended up being a damp squib. Today we need to talk about the opposite effect. Several newspapers today note the 3.3% inflation recorded in March, as a consequence of Donald Trump's narcissistic whims and the consequent rise in fuel prices. In contrast, the headline in El País was “The Bank of Spain warns of another inflation crisis if the war drags on”. It's quite curious to lead with a prediction conditioned on a reality that is already impacting people's pockets and which, for the first time, is becoming apparent in a figure. Even La Vanguardia, which usually applies bandages before Sánchez's wounds, headlines with the inflation scare and waits for the subtitle to apply the antiseptic: “Anti-crisis measures have prevented a greater economic impact”. This doesn't mean the cave dwellers aren't dwelling in their caves: everyone explained that it was the war that was driving inflation, except for El Mundo. Heaven forbid they spare Sánchez some blame. 

Tutto Puigdemont

Headline in Abc: “The European Union complicates the return of the fugitive Puigdemont”. I couldn't help but remember that anecdote Luciano Pavarotti used to tell. One of his best-selling compilations was called Tutto Pavarotti, and it seems that this had caused more than one person to refer to him as Mr. Tutto. One day Puigdemont will be able to return to Catalonia, and I imagine him then going to Madrid and finding that, in all good faith and without any hostile intention, more than one and more than two refer to him as Señor Fugado because they have never seen his surname printed without this punitive reminder.