Behind silly title this bbc series is *very* good But so striking listening to Franco episode, recorded in 2023, takes as a given that Francoism is dead Today there’s a very decent change that Franco’s ideological successors will be part of Spain’s next government www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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My toddler wanted to go to the playground. A bunch of late primary schoolers are there, swearing and trying to strangle each other. I ask them to stop. Then one of them smashes a glass bottle next to the children's slide. I tell him off. He keeps saying he doesn't understand why what he did is wrong

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He's brazen. He keeps repeating that he didn't aim it at my daughter (!!), so everything is fine. I explain to him, again, why it is not. He then tells me 'but there is rubbish around everywhere here anyway', and his friends come to his help. Their eyes are empty. They can't believe that

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someone is telling him off for this - or for anything, really. I do wonder, in my mind, if they have ever been told that they can't do something. I then explain to him that I will have to call the council and get someone to clean it up, someone who could have otherwise done important work elsewhere.

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He has the unbelievable face to tell me 'if it's so important to you why don't you get a brush and clean it yourself'. At this point I really had to contain myself. He's laughing. I decided it's best to take my daughter away and go home. It ruined my evening. This happens in Salford, where racist

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