Clear! Cordoba monument now with cardio-protection

VERY few of us look forward to the final salida.

Death is the common denominator for rich and poor alike; it is the great leveller. We don’t know where or when and hopefully it will occur whilst peacefully at sleep.

Given the choice a cathedral seems an appropriate place to fall off the perch. The chances of that happening are less likely if you find yourself in the Cordoba Mosque-Cathedral.

Unwilling to have cadavers littering the place the God squad have installed two defibrillators and trained 16 staff in their use. With a million visitors each year the chances of someone meeting one’s maker in the cathedral is pretty high.

It has become the first cardio-protected UNESCO World Heritage List monument.

THE Spanish village Peleas de Abajo, in Zamora (northwest Spain) is making world news for the wrong reasons; it is Spain’s most indebted village.

Despite the fact that local services are run on a shoestring the town hall debt of €5 million equates to €20,000 for each of its 241 inhabitants.

Now, let us imagine the village rather than being a community was a private company; what then? It would long ago have been declared insolvent.

More to the point the company’s accounts, and those if its directors, would have been rigorously investigated for evidence of malpractice or incompetence. It does seem that some are more equal in law than are others.

Politicians never seem to be called to account; this is left to the electorate. In theory that is fine; in practice it doesn’t work. Why do we keep electing men and women who would bankrupt a market stall in a week?

I think it was the great journalist and author, Mark Twain, who surmised: “Politics is the one profession for which experience is not required.”

Clearly the electorate are pretty inexperienced too.