Two cool & contrasting Barcelona retro photo series
With a chart comparing Catalan to Madrilenian GDP 1980-2009.
Tag: Corruption
Origins of “No hay pan para tanto chorizo”
50s Madrid?
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?
Mens insana in vico insano?
Artur Mas: ¡Estamos a punto de llegar a Itaca!
Someone’s been eating my porridge, growled daddy bear, before sinking in the surf.
Ser catalá és treballar dur i amb les idees clares
Being Catalan apparently means working hard without thinking very much, but where does that leave us?
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.
Solving the crisis in Spain’s public finances, part LXXII: It’s time to ban socks
The Spanish government is determined to retain the 500€ note as a crucial weapon in the fight to reduce tax evasion and money laundering. Getting rid of socks would achieve that same goal effectively without inconvenience to honest citizens and would also provide a stealth-protectionist boost to the economy.
Relative corruption of PP, PSOE, etc revisited
Every 9th Canarian nationalist councillor has a problem, and the left looks to be in worse trouble than the right nationally.
Discovered: Cataloonia’s true fet diferencial
It’s not what you steal, it’s the way that you steal it.
![<a href='http://socialistes.cat'>La Catalunya que sap on va</a>. [Photo <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.es'>CC</a> from <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/28561655@N00/'>vicenstort</a>]](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nuwVlhsiZ04/SucPOj-XSXI/AAAAAAAAjto/8accPh85wjA/s1000/la_catalunya_que_sap_on_va.jpg "<a href='http://socialistes.cat'>La Catalunya que sap on va</a>. [Photo <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.es'>CC</a> from <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/28561655@N00/'>vicenstort</a>]")