John Carlin, in a rejig of chunks of a 2002 article in El País, says that Barcelona, not Paris, is now Telegraph readers’ favourite city (where are the stats?). This has taken a while coming – the NYT did a head-to-head a couple of months back – but still: ouch. Here’s a more interesting (Spanish)…
It looks like the city’s Asian Festival is turning into an annual event. Last year’s was frighteningly embarrassing: marvel at the the profundity of the Japanese! and how spiritual the Tibetans are! (and the Indians too!). Chinese and Pakistani culture was in fairly short supply, which is strange given that the festival is located in…
It sounds like Josep Maria Casasús, alleged ombudsman for La Vanguardia, is going around telling folks that I’m an American secret agent for asking him four months ago to do something about the paper’s plagiarising, fictionalising, semi-literate London correspondent, Rafael Ramos. John Chappell – who bravely reads the paper on Sunday – has the details…
Van een gesprek tussen Felip Vivanco, Ketty Calatayud en Ronaldinho/Assis Moreira in La Vanguardia van 2003/8/29 In Parijs moest ik m’n haar laten groeien omdat het daar ontzettend koud is, terwijl hier mijn haar me lastig valt. Gaat u het laten knippen? Ik weet nog steeds niet wat ik ga doen, ik zit erover na…
Some of the recent obituaries of super-poet Willem Wilmink (1936-2003) managed to avoid mentioning his writings in Twents, despite the fact that this part of his work – he also translated, wrote and rewrote extensively in Dutch – enjoyed a large following in Twente. Let’s start by locating the two languages. Linguists classify Dutch and…
Sean seems to be getting confused between Madrid and Barcelona and … yawn. I’ve got a fiver on Mr B leaving Posh and moving in with Aunty Vicki at Hartlepool, but I’ve lost money on this kind of thing before. 12/06 update: Popbitch say he’s the new face of Calvin Klein, but their record has…