Mitchel McLaughlin is coming to give succour to the Catalan separatists next week. Too bad the IRA issued its recent statement in Spanish and French but not in Catalan.
What’s the difference between Spanish defence minister, José Bono, who believes it better for his soldiers to die than to kill, and appears to thoroughly enjoy the television shots of him looking stern when the coffins come home; and Barcelona’s leaders, who decline to give their police force the resources or institutional backing that would…
I think Stephen Moss is wrong to suggest that the British have only recently become patriotic–I think they probably always were to a much greater degree than BBC programming suggested. Some kind of shift in perceptions of Britain has, however, taken place. Whereas the Union Jack used to associated with the European far right, now…
Says Gabriel Laguna here. Re his essay: I wonder if the sense of godliness induced by romantic love is why an inability to accept the existence of a deity used (sorry, can’t think of a ref) to be identified with an incapacity to love truly.
The weird and wonderful Karim says I’m bizarre, which suggests I’ve made some kind of progress from when the woodwork teacher threatened to break my legs. If I don’t get my keys and mobile back by lunch, I will move to Tunisia and sing 80s music in beach hotels. If you see a blonde walking…
Demonstrative ethnic Catalans stick donkeys on their cars, their Spanish-and-proud friends have Osborne bulls, and I saw a Moroccan yesterday with a camel.
It was only after dumping her that he remembered that the tickets for Trent Bridge were on her credit card. (It’s becoming increasingly difficult to buy beer off Pakistani street vendors without getting into Flintoff vs Wasim discussions. Last night a single can cost me €1 and a 10 minute lecture on reverse swing in…
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