Football

An update on this discussion : the BBC has this on Spain's parliamentary commission into the Madrid bombings :

A public protest outside the Spanish parliament coincided with Mr Aznar's appearance. Its organisers said they were sickened by the Madrid bombings perpetually being used as a political football.

Update (30 Nov). Somebody from El Pais, speaking on BBC Radio 4 last night, said that the atmosphere had been poisoned in the last 18 months : politicians had crossed lines they had not crossed before, calling each other 'criminals' and so on.