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

El gazmoño del patriarca

Warder when it communicates does not always remain at a level.

Revenge of the toxic dwarf

Sarkozy is back, having put on weight, had a sex change, and learnt German.

El País, struggling to keep up with change in Europe.

Hot news from the executors of Messrs Sapir & Whorf

ÎºÏÎ¯ÏƒÎ¹Ï‚? It’s their fault for neologising.

A brief history of zoological shame

Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.

Crisis, what crisis?

Rodolfo de Angelis’ great 1930s hit explains how to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve got ourselves into.

Spanish chat-up lines

Hola guapa, ¿Asturias o trabajas? That’s all for today.

Gaudí Sands, a retro slave colony?

Gaudí’s work was financed from the fortune built upon Joan Güell’s Cuban slave empire, so if Eurovegas is going to come to the marshes of the Llobregat, what more appropriate way to staff it than by shackling and transporting some of the tens of thousands of locally unemployed Africans?

Annals of curious municipal arithmetic, part whatever

Just because you take EU funds to renovate historical monuments doesn’t mean you have to open them to the public thereafter.

Question about diachronicity, dreams and nationalist historians

OK, in this dream I’m talking to a pigeon farmer about how folks are more prepared to condone pinioning some species than others, and then a flock starts smothering my face and I wake up with a bit of sheet over my head. So brain 1) meets object in the here-and-now, 2) makes false interpretation,…

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