Brits pronouncing Barça
It’s Barker vs Barser, but you can’t blame the proto-Lebanese.
Month: May 2011
Castells, for real
A mad, mad Japanese video, and a human ladder at the Muslim siege of Aleppo in 637.
Spain, it’s the rooster’s bollocks
Ignorance helps the dart wander.
How many votes did it take to elect your councillor in the 2011 Catalan municipals?
The answer’s somewhere between 11 and 5,016. Time to merge small ayuntamientos?
Counting the corrupt
A numerate, corrupt mayor, some innumerate anti-corruption campaigners, and de Tocqueville.
The English School, Barcelona struggles with English
Boingboing: 17M = 17,000
The decline of psychoanalysis charted
English-speakers are leaving in droves, Spanish-speakers are more equivocal, and Francophones are proving hard to un-crack.
Fresh, Nasty and Well-Balanced in the Mouth
How to make your street organ twitch and stammer like a well-tuned poxy cove
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