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Unusual duelling weapons

Of sausages, sugarcandy, daggers on helmets, sharp-bladed collars, pills, and billiard balls, with a note on zombie destruction.

How to get drugs without a prescription on match days.

Luis Estrada’s new narcoflick, El Infierno, a brilliant narcoart short by Don Bartletti, and a couple of my old photos.

Destined to save the nation? More numerous than thought? Someone explain, please.

The answer’s somewhere between 11 and 5,016. Time to merge small ayuntamientos?

English-speakers are leaving in droves, Spanish-speakers are more equivocal, and Francophones are proving hard to un-crack.

Which is not to say that the Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer shouldn’t share front doors with a bar.

The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.

A comparison of the offering at Vall d’Hebron (Barcelona), Manchester Royal Infirmary and Medisch Centrum Haaglanden (The Hague).

How amiably drunken shagfests could resolve the burka problem in a manner acceptable to freedom-loving readers of this blog.