Glasgow – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Wellington vs Glasgow Rangers’ International Brigadiers, and the origins of “No pasarán” and “No surrender”

Nominations for the noblest British fighter in a Spanish war, and speculative revisions of the history of two idiot idioms.

Mugger mugged (2)

There’s a piece on Barcelona pickpockets by Laura Nicolás over at Avui (MT English here–don’t worry, they’re not actually stealing postmen). I don’t often use the metro, but my impression is that the police are considerably over-exaggerating their success, and that the problem is actually increasing. Metro Line 5 isn’t hugely popular with thieves, but…