Una iglesia llamada ajo
Year: 2011
Can an independent trade union survive in Spain?
Or do they all live off the state in order to live at all? This re the emergence of an independent domestic workers union in Barcelona, Sindihogar.
% of Spanish electorate not voting for any candidate vs % of electorate voting for winning party, 1977-2011
No tumbrils for Mariano just yet.
From this computer you can acces to almost all the resources availables on the web as:
Regional nationalist parties are actually under-represented in Congress
The villains are the PP and the PSOE, and the principal victims IU and UPyD.
Brazo de gitano with flesh-coloured filling
It always seemed wrong that the custard was yolk-hued, so a bottle of cochineal was acquired for Halloween.
Barrel Moreneta
Idiot meets web fonts
A minor change to my History of Barcelona mini-site, designed to make it even less accessible to passers-by.
Is Gertrude Stein pulling the strings on the Balearics?
José Ramón Bauzá, in government but losing the power of speech.
Vygos Cagados, a jingoistic Dutch print celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)
But why, and for whom, would a Dutchman pun on Vigo / figo (fig) when both spelling and pronunciation of the latter were long obsolete in standard Spanish?
