Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians
Only thieves, halfwits and loonies (Catalanists, Spanish politicians, …) continue to see any useful relationship between flags, nations, football teams, folkdancing and the state.
Best political poem in Spanish ever?
Why impose disastrous Spanish policies on thriving Gibraltar when British colonisation of Spain would have so many advantages?
But may a new link to Zaragoza be in the offing?
A borrowed verdict on the current public utterances of Spanish officials, and a suggestion that the Catalan national question may be about to be resolved in the same way it was in 1918-23.
Some historical advice from an Irish perspective for Esperanza Aguirre on the pitfalls of attempting to demonstrate by symbolic means the virile and libertarian spirit of Madrid in the invented and regrettable conflict between it and doldrummed Barcelona.
Is Spain a federal state? Is Arenys de Munt the new Andorra? Can I pay taxes to anyone I want?