Political calculations are beyond me. They remind me of those endless gaming sessions—to work off the Christmas sweets—where we alternate between role-playing games, poker, and Party & Co. But making laws isn't a casual pastime.

With the conclave, everyone has talked about the countercultural aura of secrecy in a society tired of transparency and the fascination with liturgy in a world without rituals. This is all very well, but I would say it's being discussed in a rather poor way, assuming a logic of caprice according to which we desire what we don't have simply so we can romanticize the past. But what if behind all this calling us the Catholic Church there were answers to important questions, whether we are religious or not?

The influencers, rather than advertising a product, they project aspirations: from orthodontics to stiletto, of the Neolith in the infinity pool, of the clean look from Monday to Friday boho. The relief of socialities Exquisite women like Isabel Presyler have been taken over by snobs of all kinds; devoted ultras like Tamara Falcó, easygoing ones like Dulceida, newcomers like Georgina Rodríguez... Those born in the independent republic of IKEA are as quick to record videos on the couch with a soft blanket as they are to CrossFit with a sweaty towel. Naturally, no one buys certain montages, but the combination of annoyance and fascination they provoke is addictive. La Ballerina Farm, a parody of a farmer married to an airline heir, has no idea of the difficulties of a livestock farm beyond getting her boots dirty with manure. In the bucolic images of her making mustard or spinning mozzarella with one of her eight children, there are no maids or nannies. There is nothing natural about that house, except the well-washed wood. country chic. Delphine de Vigan recreates, in Children are kings, the dark corner of families who live in a shop window.

The Catalan Audit Office continued paying seniority bonuses to four former executives after they had stopped working there. According to a freedom of information request made by the ARA, former board member Agustí Colom – proposed by ICV-EUiA in 2004 – has received €150,142 since he left office in 2011; former trustee Montserrat de Vehí – proposed by CiU in 2001 – has been paid €108.913 since she left in 2007; the body's secretary general from 2004 to 2011, Montserrat Vendrell, has received €52,355 euros; and former director general Joan Colom – proposed by PSC in 2004 – has received 27,411. In total, the Sindicatura has paid trustees who no longer worked there €338,822.

It is one of the world's leading arms manufacturers and exporters. Spain occupies the seventh place in the world ranking: for a decade now it has been in the top ten of this list, alongside powers such as the United States, Russia, Germany, China and the United Kingdom, and therefore well above its economic potential. It is ahead of Israel, South Korea and Italy. Its main buyers are NATO countries, especially Germany and the United Kingdom, followed at a distance by France and Australia. In fifth place it has two controversial clients: Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Because of the war in Yemen, plagued by atrocities, Germany and Italy have stopped selling to the Saudis. Spain, on the other hand, has not. Since 2015, at least 233,000 people have died in the Yemen war (there are allegations of war crimes against all sides). The Turkish genocide against the Kurds has not put a brake on Spanish arms sales. After Venezuela, the Arab Emirates are the eighth client of the State: the violations of human rights have led Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands to deny them the sale of arms. Again, Spain has kept it.