Juan Carlos has published an indescribable video to promote his memoirs. He defends his role in the transition from dictatorship to democracy and ends by asking young people to support his son, Felipe VI, in his reign. He is seen seated against a backdrop of a Spanish flag—both digital and stylized—that covers the entire screen. We haven't seen a more ridiculous use of the flag since Sonia Monroy appeared at the Oscars ceremony wrapped in one as a dress. Nor have we seen a more ludicrous use of green screen. Nor of whatever video editing software they used.

A few days ago, at the annual audience that the King of Spain dedicates to political leaders from the Balearic Islands, President Marga Prohens spoke with Felipe VI about the problem of overpopulation in the Balearic Islands. The message, as Maria Llull subtly captured in her column in the ARA Baleares newspaper, was contradictory to that of the Speaker of the Parliament (and now also of Vox Baleares, something much more important to him), Gabriel Le Senne, who shared with the monarch his concern about the reproductive rate of the population: he finds it so low that, in his opinion, they are headed for extinction. Damn. (Note: Le Senne speaks of "Mallorcans" only enough because he is unaware of the existence of the people of Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera. He also doesn't know that the Parliament he presides over represents all those people; he thinks it's a provincial theater that should be dedicated to the unity of Spain.)