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The Emperor Wu says that small office space is fetching around €650/m² pa on Fleet Street at the moment, so €37,200 pa is probably buying the separatists 50-60m²’s worth of plural reality and national character. It’s an encouraging sign of faith in the underlying strength of the Spanish economy that its regions are expanding such facilities at a time when, for example, the British Foreign Office is doing all it can to get yet more pinko wastrels to take up amateur gardening in Galicia. On the other hand, 60m² doesn’t seem very big for a nation whose male pitch and putt team rules the world. Neither is the location particularly convenient for Whitehall or the City–what do people do in Fleet Street now?–but I suppose if you acquired a mattress and fridge it would make a nice bachelor pad.
Trevor @ 2 September 2008 1:01 PM
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11:19 AM on 3 September 2008
“Pinko wastrel” Is that me??
The British Embassy has just closed its [part-time] consulate in Vigo. And the one in Bilbao, I believe.
11:24 AM on 3 September 2008
So Germaine Greer hasn’t raised the red flag over the Telegraph from without the gardening section?
12:22 PM on 3 September 2008
Political pinkos don’t read the DT. We facial
pinkos do, though less and less. Anyway, the GS has been abandoned.
10:42 AM on 5 September 2008
The Generalitat has just announced that ordinary operating costs are to be reduced by 25%. I suppose that means that the London embassy will be gone by Christmas. Not exactly a great example of forward thinking.
12:31 PM on 8 September 2008
Why can’t you call it Catalonia. People might take you more seriously
12:34 PM on 8 September 2008
Cataloonia was the spelling used by the Generalitat during the absurd Catalan culture programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year http://www.google.com/search?q=cataloonia I can’t help it if they say they’re mad.
12:35 PM on 8 September 2008
http://www.llull.cat/llull/docs/ficheros/200706180008_61_0.jpg
12:40 PM on 8 September 2008
LOL How could they do that.
3:29 PM on 8 September 2008
Well, that was for one specific comic/cartoon related exhibition, wasn’t it?
6:15 PM on 8 September 2008
Why not Catatoonia then?
12:41 PM on 9 September 2008
Was that directed at me? You can call it what you like. I’m just saying that it’s a little disingenuous to say “Cataloonia was the spelling used by the Generalitat during the absurd Catalan culture programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year” when ‘Cataloonia’ was merely the name of one exhibition at the event.
I should think that ‘Catalonia’, ‘Catalunya’ or perhaps ‘Katalonien’ were probably used more frequently.
1:06 PM on 9 September 2008
Disingenuous? Dishonest, more like. Why did they use Cataloonia, though?
3:13 PM on 9 September 2008
I thought it was to sound like ‘carTOON’. I agree, though, it was silly.
I called it disingenuous because I thought you were being thoroughly dishonourable. If it was merely dishonest then I take that back