Matthew Clapham
1 min readAug 21, 2023

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Yes, there's some weird stuff in there. I have two pieces from the last few days with the same amount credited to them, one with almost exactly twice the views, reads and comments. No obviously apparent reason for the discrepancy.

All quite quiet after the footie yesterday - my village is all partied out after two weeks of fiesta... I imagine the diehard fans will have been in the sports bar the other side of town.

The story today in the online newspaper I read is that equality minister Irene Montero has (quite rightly, I think, though I haven't seen footage, only a still photo) described the football association president grabbing and kissing one of the players on the lips as 'a form of sexual aggression'.

As she is the rightwing culture warriors' absolute bugbear, that will now dominate the news cycle, I suspect.

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/irene-montero-e-ione-belarra-califican-violencia-sexual-beso-rubiales-jugadora-jenni-hermoso_1_10455426.html

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Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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