Xenophobic atavism in the 1640 Reapers Revolt.

Link love for 05/06/2009.

Link love for 01/06/2009.

Mid-20th century Ibero-American hits, state-controlled media, the personal and the public.

An illegal brothel at Girona Airport.

Hell, no one reads my Greader feed anyway.

A Barcelona scrap-metal dealer only has 12 on the favicon on his website.

Promotes law as a truth-telling device.

By Ramon Vila & Marta Cuatrecasas

They’re not necessarily for pedestrians.

If you believe crap like the stat in this post we’ll have you certified.

A British soldier’s hazy recollections of civil war in Portugal.

Is Silvio a cyborg?

Broadly illustrative of how we got where we are, with a joke at the end.

Variation in air traffic numbers throws interesting light on Spain’s problems as it plunges into recession.

“They will respect neither the putrefied corpses of high whores nor the imbecilic devotion of the wage earner to his master’s money.”

But is the prevailing Spanish refusal to distinguish racism from multiculturalism actually more sensible than the Anglocabrón approach?

The death agonies of the car industry in Barcelona’s Zona Franca district.

But of what?

Gypsy clans living on an old dung heap north of Granada may have the answer.