Politics, the art of confusion
A borrowed verdict on the current public utterances of Spanish officials, and a suggestion that the Catalan national question may be about to be resolved in the same way it was in 1918-23.
Tag: politics of Spain
Garzón and the Batman theory of justice
The relative awfulness of, and defining differences between, English and Spanish justice.
Otra Liga es posible
An Iberian proposal would slash wage costs, free up time and talent for cashflow-friendly shagshow opportunities, and assimilate football to mainstream Peninsular cultural practice.
Bloody Galicians
But what was Rosa Díez actually trying to say before she so expertly inserted foot into mouth?
Binding referendum on the future of Catalonia, hosted by Kalebeul
In response to confusion in the markets re Spain’s constitutional arrangements and the size and distribution of its public debt, kaleBirthday has, remarkably, gained the consent of the Catalan, Spanish and EU administrations to conduct a binding poll on the future of the troubled region. Vote now or forever hold your peace.
The Lutheran conspiracy against Spain
With the Anglo-Saxon plot in tatters and Jewish machinations a non-starter, some strategic paranoia for Mr Zapatero. (Like: Is Mendelssohn’s Elijah a secret weapon of German subversion?)
Born, not made
The Spanish, making progress with a backlog of untranslated English snowclones?
If the earth belongs to the wind, then who does the wind belong to?
Property rights in the natural order of things, and the economic subtext to Zapatero’s cosmology.
Why they didn’t find Lorca
Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.
Font de Mora, right about small screens causing myopia in children?
Nearsightedness is increasing, and there aren’t many other reasonable explanations.