Anthony Gordon appeared before the press at dinnertime. But he was not sparing with words; rather, he elaborated on his first impressions, and even dared to speak several times in Spanish. “Believe it or not, since I was three years old I already wanted to play for Barça. I have learned more Spanish in the last two years because at Newcastle we had a physio with whom I practiced,” he revealed.
Abstention was expected to be one of the great fears in these elections, but the day is disproving that fear with data in hand. The people of Andalusia are going to vote and are doing so to a greater extent than in 2022. This is confirmed by the third (and final) turnout update, provided by the Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Sanz, from the Data Center. By 6:00 p.m., 51.65% of the census had already voted, more than seven points above the 44.51% recorded at the same time four years ago.
As is customary every August, Lyst Index has published the ranking of the most desired brands for this second four-month period, showing slight changes in consumer tastes and the appeal of each brand. Chanel maintains the leadership of this ranking, fueled by the excitement sparked by Matthieu Blazy. The launch of its Coco Beach and Métiers d’Arts 2026 collections has helped maintain interest in the French house, while searches on Lyst for Chanel sunglasses grew by more than 70 percent in the last quarter.
Eduardo Mendoza has been signing books at Sant Jordi for over half a century (he published his first novel, The Truth About the Savolta Case, in 1975), but never until today had he had to do so accompanied by a bodyguard. An ironic comment about the May 23rd celebration (one must say Book Day, he came to say, because the figure of the saint “has nothing to do with books or writers, Sant Jordi was an animal abuser and probably couldn’t read”) ignited the flame of indignation in pro-independence sectors, with the Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya (Junts’ youth wing) announcing a campaign for the Generalitat to withdraw his Creu de Sant Jordi, and from the anonymity of social media, there was even a call to burn the author’s books, taking advantage of the Sant Joan bonfires.
The United States and Iran are heading towards the return of war on all fronts, due to the lack of solutions that resolve their fundamental disagreement: who should control the Strait of Hormuz. Washington concluded yesterday its ninth consecutive night of attacks against Iranian military and civilian infrastructure, bombings that reached the cities of Bushehr, Chabahar, Bandar Mahshahr, and Bandar Imam Jomeini. For its part, Iran attacked for the second day the Aqaba international airport, in southern Jordan, as well as military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, and two oil tankers in Hormuz, a maritime route through which 20% of the world’s oil passed before the war.
The person who is admitted for observation in the isolation unit of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona for being identified as a contact of a hantavirus case has tested negative in the second PCR test, the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia reported in a statement this Saturday night.
Surrounded by members, emblems, and fan club members, Florentino Pérez’s last campaign event before the elections was marked by a full-frontal attack against his rival, Enrique Riquelme, whom he tried to discredit by all means in an extremely harsh speech. Without constantly mentioning him, but with direct references to his candidacy, Pérez built his intervention on the denials regarding his rival’s signings. “We campaign from the truth. Others prefer lies and hoaxes” and criticized that “a televised hoax is launched and then denied” by those involved.
There was a time when eating some meatballs did not make you want to buy a Billy bookshelf. Thirty years, in fact. It was on May 6, 1996, when the Ikea mothership landed among us and the extraordinary shockwave did not take long to arrive. It was easy, clean, young, and cheap. And there were (in theory) many possibilities. Some people went, in those early days, to Ikea to get ideas. They entered the stores and left without buying anything, with their eyes and heads full of ideas. That leaving without buying didn’t last long. One fact. 6% of Catalans born in these three decades were conceived in Ikea beds. If that impresses you, and returning to the topic of the meatballs from the Swedish restaurant inside the facilities, you should also know that 8.7 million meatballs have been served and eaten, so that if you stacked one meatball on top of another (and on top of the other, the one) we could build a tower 60 kilometers high.
President Pedro Sánchez has brought to the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cercle d’Economia the commitment to begin processing the 2027 State budgets in the coming days. “We will start processing them this very week” with the approval of the ministerial order that activates the entire machinery, he announced.
Andy Burnham is now serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The former mayor of Manchester, who was received on Monday morning by Charles III at Buckingham Palace, gave a speech at the doors of his new residence, 10 Downing Street, in which he pledged to restore stability to the United Kingdom and admitted the lack of quality of the current political generation in the United Kingdom.
