The Da Vinci Code – awful
TweetI've started reading the Da Vinci code, expecting to be bowled over by the book which has sold more copies than Harry Potter (which is also crap). Never have I been so under whelmed by a novel....
View ArticleVatican in 'religious freedom' farce
TweetToday's El PaÃs carries an interesting story about the Vatican. Apparently, the Pope and his Cardinals are concerned about the gradual erosion of the Catholic Church in Spain. Nick Lyne writes...
View ArticleCommon myths #122 – America saved Europe
TweetOn BBC Breakfast this morning there was a feature about how France and the US might be about to repair their damaged relations. Reporting from New Orleans, the journalist spoke to a number of...
View ArticleGate Gourmet, Venezuela, Lost
TweetInteresting how on yesterday's BBC News 24, the correspondent reporting on the Venezuelan air crash nearly slipped in a big pile of news dung when he was asked about reports that all the...
View ArticleAnem a esquiar!
TweetWe're off to Vall Nord for the weekend, skiing and perhaps taking advantage of the duty free shopping in Andorra. Andorra is a funny place. In many ways it's more Catalan than Catalonia because in...
View ArticleWine, wine, wine
TweetI've just discovered that Spain is the world's third largest producer of wine. Behind France and Italy (I must admit that I can't remember the time I last tried a glass of Italian), Spain produced...
View ArticleERC: most evil people in history?
TweetIt has come to my attention recently that there has been something of a campaign of misinformation recently concerning the Catalan nationalist political party, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. I...
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Exile On Main Street – Pussy Galore
TweetI first really got into Exile on Main Street about two or three years ago. It was the sort of time in a Barcelona summer when you go to xiringuitos, get drunk then head into town and get high. My...
View ArticleYes, Zapatero, you will go to the ball!
TweetSpanish PM Jose Rodriguez Zapatero will attend the global financial shindig, to be held next week in Washington D.C. Spain's presence has been made possible by French President Sarkozy's offer to...
View ArticlethebadPoll: How should the British press refer to ETA?
TweetToday's news of a senior commander's arrest in France has brought ETA into the British press again, rasing as it always does the question of nomenclature.It is standard for British media...
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Is Barcelona inherently gay? How about ass?
TweetIf you've been wondering what I've been up to recently, and let's face it: you haven't but it works as an opening gambit; I've been fairly busy with a pleasantly productive period of work in the...
View ArticleFighting an economic cold
TweetMany of the pundits and newsreaders who refer to the current economic malaise threatening Europe use one term more than any other: contagion.The suggestion is that the troubles that have afflicted...
View ArticleSome questions… #1.5: What about France?
TweetAs part of my apparently ongoing series of Questions for a Catalan Independentist, this post poses a question that wasn't in my original post.Actually, this is a topic I've been thinking about...
View ArticleWhat next for Catalonia? More questions for the independence movement
TweetIf not precisely inevitable, Catalan independence now seems much more likely than it did a couple of years back when I first framed my questions for supporters and opponents of Catalan...
View ArticleMas making love to France
TweetArtur Mas has been on an official visit to France. He celebrated that Spain has permitted Catalonia its own sub-representation at UNESCO in Paris. He also took the opportunity to suggest that the...
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