George W. Bush – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Spain, invisible; leaders, dumb

Normal furrow resumed.

Rammed earth/pisé wall (left) reinforced with lime mortar cladding (right) at Ouzilly-Vignolles, Moncontour, France. Yeah, I went cycling.

Columbus was a proto-Judenstaatler, says someone

But a joke I have just cobbled together suggests otherwise.

New World Order

Someone remind me why Gaddafi is to be pursued for crimes against humanity but Laurent Gbagbo is not.

Berlusconi and the wiseness of Mubarak

“The wisest of men” line isn’t the former’s, but ben trovato it certainly is.

<a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/cagiflickr/5389372179/'>Tutta colpa di mia nipote Ruby</a>, CC by <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/cagiflickr/'>cagiflickr</a>

Garzón and the Batman theory of justice

The relative awfulness of, and defining differences between, English and Spanish justice.

Perspectives for home schooling in Catalonia

It’s looking good, and who the hell cares if it’s unconstitutional?

Saddam and Gomorrah

Being Kalebeul’s contribution to rebranding the Spanish nation.

Outsourcing in the Spanish military

Spanish reluctance to implement American-style planning, and claims of a uniquely Spanish approach to counter-terrorism.

Here’s the real-life flipside to Valley of the wolves, Iraq: a Turkish military court has released the phenomenally brave gay consciencious objector Mehmet Tarhan. An excellent piece by Bernard Bouwman in Dutch in the NRC describes how our man decided after 9/11 that this fight was not his in any sense and–traitor!–refused to serve when…

Ciudadanos de Cataluña launch, a bitter disappointment

Liberals believe that politics is about freeing individuals to live as they want within just bounds. Nationalists believe it is a tool for translating a sense of ethnic identity and a fondness for folkdancing into, respectively, sovereignty and national ballets. No one can remember what socialists believed. For the rest of us, however, politics–I speak,…

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