Barcelona debt

“Clos!” mutters a wealthy neighbour every time it rains, confident that doom is imminent for Barcelona’s dentally salient mayor. In fact the AA rating assigned by Standard and Poor’s to the latest offering of municipal debt is just another sign that Barcelona is in pretty good shape, [insert preposition here] 20 years of Catalan socialist…

So what about Ramos?

They’ve nailed Jack Kelley of USA Today, so when are we going to hear some news from Josep Maria Casasús on the fate of La Vanguardia’s plagiarising illiterate, Rafael Ramos? (Here he is with some more porkies in the Independent, full text on al-Jazeerah.)

tunisian textiles

This is the kind of news that must break the hearts of the beards who want to establish little, backward Islamic fiefdoms: Tunisian textile exports to Spain have more than doubled in the last three years. Major Spanish players like Zara, El Corte Inglés, Pull and Bear and Mango are already operating in Tunisia and…

the world in a sentence, part iii

And here are the 63 words that constitute (part 1, part 2) part 3 of the serialisation of a sentence in Seres Míticos y Personajes Fantásticos Españoles by Manuel Martín Sánchez: a lo largo y ancho de toda nuestra geografía, el toro actúa como el verdadero protagonista para poner a prueba el valor de los…