The Islamic veil isn't exactly the tip of the iceberg, but it's close. The veil is a sign, a symbol, proof of how the human landscape of our streets has changed, and it's a subject of political debate.

The global crisis caused by the rise to power of Donald Trump has intensified the debate on how to label, ideologically, the spheres controlled by the extreme right. A controversy that is apparently causing considerable reluctance among historians, political scientists, analysts, and journalists when it comes to presenting facts and ideas in black and white. Because it's not just a question of how to use the terminology: far right, extreme right, far right, populist far right? Or simply right-wing populism or ultra populism? It might seem like we're dealing with a handful of euphemisms and substitutes to choose from when talking about Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Orbán, or Le Pen. Some warn of the risk of falling into a certain "banalization" of fascism. And the signals emitted by reality invite us to delve deeper into the issue.

These days I take the opportunity to hang some pictures and I am thankful that my flat is not a town hall because I would not find any suitable corner to hang the portrait of King Felipe VI. Nothing is Bourbon to me, at home. I have placed, and prominently, the couple of the Queen of England and Angela Merkel in a magnificent image smiling at Windsor Castle, on the farewell tour that the chancellor is beginning to make. It is a question of taste and contradictions. As we can still choose our private decoration for the time being, I make the most of the freedom, like when I'm scrubbing a jar of Nutella. Let's be free up to the bottom of the jar, because it's getting rough.