Empires, rulers and warfare – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Spain, invisible; leaders, dumb

Normal furrow resumed.

Rammed earth/pisé wall (left) reinforced with lime mortar cladding (right) at Ouzilly-Vignolles, Moncontour, France. Yeah, I went cycling.

On the other hand…

Why the mob may want to consider murder and mayhem. With apologies to the Archpriest of Hita.

One problem with escraches

There’s also this phenomenon called Iche.

Iberian debut of a classic paranoiac Dutch neither-nor motif?

You do something bad, I’ll do something ugly.

Homeless Chinese in Barcelona

Plus, how to acquire a country house for next to nothing.

Joan Ripollès Iranzo thinks Arturo (the “o” disappeared in public a decade ago) Mas may be on the way out, Elena Ribera isn’t so sure. My favourite Reverend Bacon this time round was Oriol Junqueras, whose resemblance to a mad pig conceals the fact that he is a cunning one. I loved his recycling of…