18/01/2006 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Weirder plot than Baron Sakender

Tik-Tok of Oz. Did you know that Toto could talk but chose not to, and that the tornado was made with a sock? This is all useful stuff.

Ernesto Giménez Caballero and Catalan totalitarianism

It’s a commonplace that essential similarities exist between the programmes of the Catalan left and the Spanish extreme right (I’m thinking in particular of ERC and the various Falangist splinters): an apparently psychotic obsession with the nation and its symbols, a determination to impose an all-powerful state, and a willingness (nay, a desire) to use…