Monsters – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The bullfighting Chinaman and his magnificent midget show

Yet more Spanish culture for Brussels to ban.

What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El País, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, Público, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?

Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.

Party political prejudice, or yet more historical memory bollocks?

A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.

Yo, el vaquilla, quinqui cinema, and the usual political whining.

A Barcelona scrap-metal dealer only has 12 on the favicon on his website.

Public morality on the train to Vilafranca.

Why does the Spanish government want inmates, and where is it going to put them?

Visit the site with caution for the next few days until I get round to sorting out all the crap.