I was on the coast in Cala de Mijas and picked up a copy of the EWN, the free paper that never gets up to Ronda, where I live.
No great loss, as it was always a terrible paper, with few journalistic aspirations or intentions.
[EWN]
The owners, the Eusdens, are business people, not Press folk, and the vitriolic, racist, sexist and foul-mouthed Leapy Lea, failed English pop singer, acquired a 'gig' as a regular columnist.
But .....
I was pleasantly surprised with this latest edition, published today!
Gone are the poorly written, badly researched, sensationalist news stories of old.
And Leapy Lea was reasonable and measured! I nearly fell off my chair!
Do you think he's had 'his collar felt' by 'The Old Bill'?
I'd heard on the grapevine that if Lea were to return to the UK he would be arrested for expressing in writing his extreme right wing views.
Leapy Lea nowadays [Amazon]
Good to see these changes for the better ..... but, will they last?!
© Paul Whitelock
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Thanks:
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