And why not? The taxi has far, far greater claims than beautiful but culturally insignificant places like Úbeda. But would drivers stump up the bribes required by UNESCO officials?
I am told that La Vanguardia’s emblematic but problematic Londoner hasn’t contributed anything for a year. Characteristically, his most recent filing, from November 2011, is a reworking of a news story about the Redruth Close Hill estate curfew, which appeared briefly in the British press in 2008. Not much value for money when reporters start…
The first phoneme of the subject of this splendid story by the Diario de Jerez appears to have colonised the first of the (long defunct) Whiteways Cider Co. Ltd., and they probably deserved it. For Whiteways et al in 1966 sought a ruling allowing them to market as sherry beverages that used the Jerez process…
Apparently a splendid wind farm has been built in Portugal, whose only minor disadvantage is that it is so remote from the national grid that it will never be connected. One always wondered about those Great Leap Forward stories in the NYT etc. Some detail would be welcome.
English: deMOcracy, Spanish: demoCRAcia, German: demokraTIE. Would multilingual discussion and implementation of such a potentially useful concept be facilitated by the creation by Brussels of a well-remunerated Accent Unification Committee, or is diversity key? It’s downright aucword to think that others may think you’re dumb just because you stress such a basic term wrongly in…
Re this, JB comments that showing any kind of relationship between financial and technological innovation is kind of hard, but rather liked this illustration – of what happens when you let an entrepreneur also run monetary policy. (When was Spain’s first bubble? Spanish Wikipedia is big on Anglo disasters, but doesn’t mention Spanish railways in…
