February 2009 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

1485, and how to beat it

Use spam calls from Telefónica as a free sex chat service and they may leave you alone.

The dirtiest hotels in Spain

According to this list. As a popular destination, Barcelona has two in the top ten, Hostal Windsor and Hostal Abrevadero. A friend tells me that the proportion being fired in the sector substantially exceeds official figures for the drop in tourists. My money’s on the cockroaches to survive.

Saluton!

Don’t take shit from phoney idealists.

Fucked justice

Check out veteran socialist moderate Joaquín Leguina on the silence from both major parties re the abuse of judicial power when it suits their ends. And Ignacio Escolar has some interesting PP quotes from the last century. And UPyD says it can be fixed with legal and constitutional reform.

How can Galicia be a nation if you can’t get there from Brussels?

Centre-periphery logistics and nationhood.

Blanes-Ma?

Renfe’s public information system at plaza Cataluña station can’t cope with the cedilla in Maçanet.

Potential accordion purchase

This is an option now the Casio kiddieboard is dead and there’s not enough time for the barrel organ.

Scum

Public morality on the train to Vilafranca.

Guantánamo

Why does the Spanish government want inmates, and where is it going to put them?

Emphyteutic lease

The Catalan Generalitat has been using Enron-like accounting to accumulate hidden liabilities.