Icons are not what they used to be. Nowadays Johnny Rotten advertises a very British brand of butter.

Watching Mr. Lyndon promote butter is not that surprising. The guy is a living ad on two legs himself. He started his career as the perfect fit to a pret-a-porter band, Sex Pistols. That a marketing operation like the Sex Pistols reached an iconic status in our culture is as puzzling as the fact that Sir Cliff Richard is not gay.

Franco (Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde) robbed Sir Cliff Richard (read Great Britain, one can’t say where one ends and where starts the other) of the Eurovision win in 1968. La Sexta, a Spanish television station, only recently aired a documentary claiming to uncover the vote-rigging.
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The best animated gif about King Juan Carlos of Spain rebuking Hugo Chavez of Venezuela:

Source: elmundo.es. Author: unknown

The later was repeatedly interrupting Spain’s Prime Minister’s speech at the Ibero-american summit this weekend.

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A a judge, Juan del Olmo, to shut down the website of El Jueves, a popular weekly magazine in Spain yesterday.

The instruction was issued following a complaint about a cartoon depicting Felipe de Borbón, son of the king of Spain, having sex with his wife.

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