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I’m just curious: suppose the EU in its infinite wisdom were to agree to recognise any Spanish region voting 55% in favour of secession, would it also recognise the right of parts of that region to secede and rejoin the original state? Since the Bajo Llobregat contains Barcelona Airport and would be a prime candidate [...]
I’d love to see El verano de Andalucía or Andarushía no natsu. Having to win the Tour the same day your brother marries … your girlfriend is something so many of us have experienced. (The Japan Times credits Kosaka his pickled eggplants, but says he’s still short of cultural mulligan stews. Can’t please everyone…)
David Millán on the crisis facing Don Pasqual Maragall i Mira, glorious successor of Jaume/Jaime/James I of Aragon.
Two elderly Catalan working class men in a bar:
–Democracy is a disaster. It’s just another name for permissiveness.
–I don’t agree with you. What we’ve got just ain’t real democracy. Real democracy is about respect.
–And there’s not much of that around nowadays.
–Zapatero’s lot are just libertines. Democracy was much better in the 50s.
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Over at Crónica Verde, about the ongoing destruction by the Andalusian PSOE of the Doñana National Park. This is quite different from the abuse of natural space during the dictatorship because (all together now!) Franco was of the right, while Chaves is of the left, and the people’s friend to boot.
Other old media may be bolder liars, but you can always rely on ABC for the grossest cheese, as in this drooling retrowank re Felipe González’s new bit. How can you write a thing like that, even if it is a double entendre? Or am I just too much of a curious puritan?
I thought ETA’s man on the run had lost it when he went AWOL from a Subject Nation of an Evil Empire with generally excellent weather to a Subject Nation of an Evil Empire where it never bloody stops raining, just in time for winter. But then it started snowing across northern Spain, and even Barcelona had a hail storm.
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