It’s not what you steal, it’s the way that you steal it.

The British establishment doesn’t give a rat’s arse what he thinks.

Bizarrely honest or honestly bizarre?

It does have its advantages. Ants are not one of them.

What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El País, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, Público, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?

Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”

It’s all a question of taste and budget in Gaudy’s famous Parky Gay, just up the road from the Sangria Familia.

Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.

Serious separatists will drive on the left, in Vic, starting Sunday.

Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.

A drunk-sounding Peacock Band playing accordions, bones, and mouth organs in a pub in Chelsworth, Suffolk the early 1970s.

Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.

Is Spain a federal state? Is Arenys de Munt the new Andorra? Can I pay taxes to anyone I want?

Vague musings on the past and present of hare coursing and greyhound racing in Spain.

Party political prejudice, or yet more historical memory bollocks?

A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.

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.