Weather and politics. Is everything OK? (Week 7)

When weather makes a frontpage, boy you're eather in the Caribbean, or Britain. It's hurricane season, unfortunately, but it is bound to and end. November. Good side? It's not a lot, bad side? Two force-4 hurricanes in less that a month. This is quite a lesson for the one that played the "racial argument", which could be fairly called "racial deceit". The local government is actively leading the work in Texas, unlike Kathleen Babineaux, who simply fled as soon as she could. This is a lesson, because it shows what the governor is supposed to do: not leave the people behind.

Some might see Houston's massive traffic jams as a bad concept, but we should defend that the people has been warned soon enough (it was warned as well with Katrina), and mobilized without excuse.

Happily, weather is clearing over Italy, too. In the political sense, of course. The storm that hit the Italian central Bank, with the Scandal of its governor Fabio Fazio, could be at an end with a change of ministries. Mr. Siniscalco leaves, and Mr. Tremonti joins back the government right where he left. Will he tempt Mr. Fazio to leave his seat? Our bet here is a juicy private company, who'll lure him with an important salary.

Incompetence has characterized, on the other hand, some politics in Argentina and some even in Spain. When they talk about plans for education, don't trust them. Specially in a country like Argentina, poorly-rated in education levels. How about Spain then? The draught is at hand. Maybe they should borrow some water from the Gulf of Mexico, these days, but the fact is the different governments have left Spain to dry for more than two decades.

Finally, political storms, even more: a political earthquake is undergoing in Catalonia, where the Automony is not enough for some, and too much for others. A relatively small region, populated with 4 million souls pretends to gain power not only within Spain, but also within the European Union... it's like the rebellion of the Scots, yes. Only those don't do wars, they just get all the money by their side. A comment by our leading columnist Álvaro Jiménez-Casas, later today.

And in our new cinema section, today José Luis Panero presents the spanish premiere for "Red Eye".

I'm Miguel Vinuesa and this is news to me!