Tilting at windmills Cervantes wrote and published "Don Quixote" during the Eighty Years' War, or Dutch War of Independence (1568–1648), a revolt by the Habsburg Netherlands to end Spanish rule. In "Don Quixote", the eponymous protagonist consistently misinterprets the motives and actions of his adversaries and allies, and struggles to even understand his own at times — a conundrum regularly resulting in apparently unjustified violent actions and consequences. One way of interpreting Don Quixote's tilting at windmills could be allegorically, thereby promoting critical, skeptical, or satirical evaluation of either a hero's motives, rationales and actions, or the ultimate aims of a nation's foreign
Hugh Pugh (fictional character) 2007 with a series of three themed specials broadcast throughout the year starring "Hugh Pugh". "Barry Welsh Has An Election" (broadcast: 3 May 2007) featured mock coverage of the Fishguard mayoral election whilst "Hugh Pugh Kicks Off" (broadcast: 6 September 2007) took an offbeat look at the Rugby World Cup. A Christmas special, "Hugh Pugh's Christmas Cracker" (broadcast: 18 December 2007) featured highlights from the past ten years of spoof news bulletins and reports from Fishguard. Hugh Pugh (fictional character) Hugh Pugh is a news reporter for the fictitious "Look Out Wales" reports featured on comedy sketch show "Barry Welsh