11/07/2014 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

A judge orders materials at the Barcelona Foreigner Internment Centre to be translated into languages the inmates can’t read

Judge Joaquín Aguirre has identified a problem: many Senegalese etc can’t speak their national language, French, to a level that would enable them to understand the information given to them. But his well-meaning solution – translating into Wolof or whatever – is actually worse: state education in for example Dakar is conducted in French, and…