While conceding that Spain "cannot control what Germany does or force the Opec hawks to cut petrol prices", the paper points out that the government "could at least put in place the means to prevent our inflation surge from turning into a vicious circle of stagnation and unemployment".
Unfortunately, at about the same time that this statement was being made, a video was being put up on YouTube in which, seven seconds in, a policeman steps daintily over a circle of protestors, who do nothing to impede him, before dousing them with aerosol condiment.