Good news from Glasgow, which not only has a public lighting strategy but a convener who can speak French, which doubtless comes in useful when enjoying well-earned meetings in foreign districts where the illumination is of revolutionary hue: GLASGOW councillors are to get French lessons to help them cope with formal visits across the Channel.…
There was a very good piece in yesterday’s Guardian by a local (non-)resident. Slate meanwhile carried a slightly less polished effort from Mr Hitchens, with which I agree more (via Iberian Notes).
This requires an old-style BBC accent: tue wed thu fri sat sun mon Sunny. Hot. Sunny. Hot. Sunny. Awfully hot. Sunny. Hot. Sunny. Awfully hot. Sunny. Hot. Sunny. Hot. High 98° F 94° F 99° F 97° F 99° F 98° F 94° F Low 74° F 74° F 76° F 75° F 75° F…
Bins in most high-risk countries have generally been removed from public places and replaced either by hordes of gorgeous young scrubbers in gaudy green or by marginally less photogenic bomb-resistant containers, but I don’t think there’s even been any discussion of this here yet.
This is cool, and not just because of the location: Some 3,000 people turned out for the opening ceremony on Sunday of one of Turkey’s first Kurdish language teaching centres in the mainly-Kurdish southeast of the country under EU-inspired reforms, the owner said. The centre in the city of Batman is set to begin classes…
Ja se’n va el tren d’Olotfent xup, xup,se’n va el tren d’Olot. Surt quan voli arriba quan pot;fent xup, xup,se’n va el tren d’Olot.Popular The real news this morning is, as always, from Aragon. In a development that will bankrupt Ladbrokes when I collect, Chairman Alf/Warren Mitchell has led the Chunta Aragonesista to a 0.04…
A number of people I spoke to yesterday were firmly convinced that Mr Aznar had himself planted the bombs, and that even al-Qaeda would be better than another Partido Popular term in power. Since most of these people also believe that one can have rational conversations with trees (but not, apparently, with prickly shrubs), it’s…
It’s not just the sprinkling of No al PP signs at what is meant to be an ecumenical anti-terrorism fest: I fail to understand the whole concept of marching in large groups, carrying the same placards and chanting the same slogans in order to protest intolerance of the individual on the part of ETA and…
The Guardian gets some things wrong this morning which other people will jump all over. However it is carrying an intelligent analysis of why yesterday’s outrage was probably the work of a changing ETA, and not of Islamic bombers. It took the ageing terrorist apologists who run Gara.net the whole morning to figure out what…