De cuando Jaume Sobrequés estaba en contra de los patrioteros
O tempora! o morro!
Tag: Francoism
Mondragón
Goodbye and good riddance.
“Todo lo encuentro barato”
Josep Pla on the rich during the economic disaster of the 1940s.
Farewell, (Catalan) Talgo
One of 20th century Spain’s great engineering achievements disappears as it drove: with nary a whisper.
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Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.