Spain – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Seville “metro” about to commence operations?

Du Guesclin expresses his doubts re this and other project objectives.

Bottled in origin/Embotellado en orígen

A Spanish wine company is struggling with machinery and branding.

Workers who don’t, unemployed who ain’t

A fragment from the story of how Andalusia got where it wouldn’t necessarily want to be, given a modicum of thought.

German colleagues

Übersetzungsfehler deals with a variety of language combinations and is altogether more sober than this site. As is frequently the case on German websites, the legal notice deserves a trophy of some kind.

Spanish woman academic dresses according to stereotype

From an off-the-record report of a departmental seminar somewhere in the UK.

More registered than apparent actual unemployed in Spain

Are Spanish unemployment statistics the result of fraud or incompetence?

Spain impeding free movement of capital in Europe

Will the rich get their assets out of Spain before Zapatero manages to fleece them?

“survival of the strongest”

Freesheet ADN pays tribute to Darwin by mistranslating him.

Brilliant video of Andalusian socialist mayor taking €30K bribe from developer

Twenty-nine actually, he forgot a grand. And then there’s thirty more on completion. The mayor of Ohanes’ analysis of the electoral politics of corruption is hilarious: Of course, this isn’t real corruption like the conservative PP’s. Nice detail: the telly stays on, not to kill hidden mikes, but for reasons of social etiquette.

Death of a monkey mascot

Anecdotes from the frozen wastes of Spain and Britain, with a brief burst of the usual twaddle.