Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Prophets

Joan Ripollès Iranzo thinks Arturo (the “o” disappeared in public a decade ago) Mas may be on the way out, Elena Ribera isn’t so sure. My favourite Reverend Bacon this time round was Oriol Junqueras, whose resemblance to a mad pig conceals the fact that he is a cunning one. I loved his recycling of…

Oriol Junqueras being fattened in Osona.

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?

President Montilla and friend, photo <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donkey_punch_2.jpg'>CC by Sooky</a>

Josep Huguet, José Millán Astray and the death of intelligence

With a sublime little parody of romantic nationalism from Camilo José Cela, who has his own particular view of this bothersome culture vs civilisation thing.

Monument to Iberia's Buster Gonad in <a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=padr%C3%B3n&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=Padr%C3%B3n,+Corunna,+Galicia,+Spain&ll=42.738944,-8.659973&spn=0.9481,2.469177&t=h&z=9'>Padrón</a>, his native village, <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estatua_de_Camilo_Jos%C3%A9_Cela_en_Padr%C3%B3n.JPG'>CC</a> by <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fev'>Fev</a>

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.

Elections (brothels, Nazis), corruption, Girona airport shuttle, an Andalusian lexicon

Link love for 05/06/2009.

SOS Racismo: pro-Islam, indifferent to anti-Semitism

The French left’s anti-racism proxy appears to have lost control of its Spanish entity, which appears to have lost sight of whatever idealism it may have once had.