Languages, mankind, empires, the family – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder – Page 14

Two views of progress

Italy vs England.

Workers who don’t, unemployed who ain’t

A fragment from the story of how Andalusia got where it wouldn’t necessarily want to be, given a modicum of thought.

Saluton!

Don’t take shit from phoney idealists.

Fucked justice

Check out veteran socialist moderate Joaquín Leguina on the silence from both major parties re the abuse of judicial power when it suits their ends. And Ignacio Escolar has some interesting PP quotes from the last century. And UPyD says it can be fixed with legal and constitutional reform.

Blanes-Ma?

Renfe’s public information system at plaza Cataluña station can’t cope with the cedilla in Maçanet.

More registered than apparent actual unemployed in Spain

Are Spanish unemployment statistics the result of fraud or incompetence?

Revealed, the difference between Jews and Anglo-Saxons

Someone called Emily has found an original way of telling us apart.

Spain impeding free movement of capital in Europe

Will the rich get their assets out of Spain before Zapatero manages to fleece them?

PP’s Last Supper?

Nice one from Ignacio Escolar, who quotes Luke and asks who’s playing Judas in this photo.

Rajoy Last Supper

Revisionist history of 17th century Mediterranean trade

Molly Greene describes the complex anarchy that existed between the collapse of the Mediterranean powers and the entry of northern fleets.