Unusual duelling weapons
Of sausages, sugarcandy, daggers on helmets, sharp-bladed collars, pills, and billiard balls, with a note on zombie destruction.
Category: Medicine
Ear, ear
How to get drugs without a prescription on match days.
Narco tombs in San Miguel Arcángel, Culiacán and Barcelona
Luis Estrada’s new narcoflick, El Infierno, a brilliant narcoart short by Don Bartletti, and a couple of my old photos.
Spain’s self-employed
Destined to save the nation? More numerous than thought? Someone explain, please.
How many votes did it take to elect your councillor in the 2011 Catalan municipals?
The answer’s somewhere between 11 and 5,016. Time to merge small ayuntamientos?
Counting the corrupt
A numerate, corrupt mayor, some innumerate anti-corruption campaigners, and de Tocqueville.
The decline of psychoanalysis charted
English-speakers are leaving in droves, Spanish-speakers are more equivocal, and Francophones are proving hard to un-crack.
The doggone girl is mine
Village Virgin wars.
Aragon public health service promotes margarine urban legends
Smoking and drinking increase your risk of getting cancer
Which is not to say that the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer shouldn’t share front doors with a bar.
