New post and Last post: Please join me now over on my new Substack page

I'm afraid it's goodbye.

But thanks for the memories...and thanks for reading!

After 14 years here and 832 posts, and my intro to online posting, it's all over because I've found someone new to share my life with! Well, you know what I mean...

Please join me now over on my new Substack page: https://bretthetherington.substack.com/

All my old blogposts are there so for nostalgia's sake we are not really parting are we?

"Sacedoncillo" (An abandoned town) composed and performed by Alba Asensi [& Manolo López]

 

Spanish Government Complaint Box Causes Boomerang ...(Reposted from archives Oct. 2013)

Standing in a Spanish Doorway: Spanish Government Complaint Box Causes Boomerang ...: "The Spanish Minister of Employment and Social Security,Fátima Bañez, has launched a “complaint box” to combat workplace fraud.   ...

"...The move has sparked controversy in the blogosphere and on social networks, and created a boomerang effect against the Spanish government: the first complaints received through the new system were directed at the government itself and members of the political sphere, not at ordinary citizens as intended."