Christmas slum evictions around Montcada

“No tenemos conocimiento de que viva nadie, sí de la existencia de construcciones”, asegura un portavoz municipal. Neither will they surely have noticed the far greater numbers of people living in shanties and mud along the other bank of the river – the same pattern is to be found along chunks of the Llobregat, and…

Insuring Amsterdam

Stiltsville in various Germans. With a filthy joke, and several less filthy ones.

El gremio

Todas esas perenganadas de aficionados no hacen más que dañar a la industria. Hay que acabar con ellos. Si quieren hacer comedias, que ingresen como meritorios.

Podría ser el Mussolini de Jardiel, tras la muerte de su húngaro, pero es aquel pobre valenciano.

Translation scam spam

You know, the guys who divide a job up amongst lots of translators and tell each one that if they do a free sample they might get the whole job.

Who cares if UPyD and Ciudadanos can’t do a deal?

Other big stories tonight: I, aged 6, am definitely not going to marry Emily Boyle. I mean, years ago there was space for a populist party opposed to the PP-PSOE-IU-CiU-ERC-etc establishment. But Rosa was basically interested in being the PP’s PSOE pinup, and no one really knows where Albert has been, and star propagandist Arcadi’s…

Should be some good Spanish bars in Walworth…

This fascinating map by Oliver O’Brien shows the most popularly spoken language after English for each London ward. The data is from 2011 and in some areas will have changed considerably – Romanian fondness for the northern end of the Piccadilly Line has certainly grown. I hoped the Nepalese would have shrunk from tunnels, but…