Dirt all round

IT WAS grim news for Felipe Gonzalez, Spain's former prime minister and still leader of the Socialist party, when 33 Supreme Court judges decided recently to put a pile of secret-service documents into the public domain. Just about all the information in them had already been leaked to the press. But it may well now be used to help prosecute a number of Mr Gonzalez's closest colleagues in the governments that ran Spain for 13 years until last summer, when the conservative People's Party (PP), led by Jose Maria Aznar, took over. The documents may make Mr Gonzalez squirm, too. The odd thing, though, is that the Socialist leader's discomfiture may not much help Mr Aznar. Few people in Spain feel very good about what has been revealed.