Miguel de Unamuno – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

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>

Ahistorical Albacete

Unlike Carlos, I’m actually rather fond of Albacete, and not just because its ugliness is on a smaller scale than Birmingham’s. Although generally more energy tends to be devoted to damnation than to praise, I found out the other night, flicking through a book called Historia de la provincia de Albacete, that I’m not the…

Backish

Thanks for the concerned mails. The cooperative gave us the day off, so I’m able to report that, far from being drunk or dead, I am in fact drownded, and that neither in the Jesus Sea, nor in the Odys-sea, but in the rippling Manchegan earthsea, where gypsies wear latex and smell of Eau de…

Galdós and those spud-crazy guiris

Where did he get that vernacular?

Bar Daguiri on Barcelona beach: a Guardia Civil hangout?

El Barça, Franco’s favourite team?

There is no statistical evidence for claims that the Franco government worked for Real Madrid and against Barça.