Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Remember me
In early 1967 – the year that 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' was released in the UK – Spanish police arrested the Madrid student Rafael Guijarro and tortured him to death down at the station....
A few months ago, the ex-King of Spain (the one who broke his leg while trying to cull the elephant population of Botswana) confessed to a French TV crew that the last words a dying Franco spoke to him...
I'm (just about) old enough to remember a pre-UE time when a flight from London to, say, Barcelona on even the crummiest airline (Dan-Air) cost a tidy sum that most of us didn't have. Travelling across...
In February of this year, Muriel Casals, a 70 year old cultural activist, anti-Franco resister and MP in the current Catalan parliament, was knocked down and killed by a cyclist in Barcelona. Last month...
Last month, an initial draft of a proposed Catalan constitution (for a future independent Catalan Republic) was released to the public. Consisting of 149 articles drawn up by a team of 17 people, including...
Last month the Barcelonan night club Bikini received a visit from Frank Turner, who is usually described in his native UK as a folk singer, though his music is about as close to folk as the oeuvre of Chuck...
The author of 'Clockwork Orange', Anthony Burgess, famously described Shakespeare on live TV as 'something of a bore'. And the author of 'Tropic of Cancer', Henry Miller, wrote in a letter to his friend...
In the first two months of this year, quite a lot of well-known people in the performing arts died before their time (or at least before the average Western life expectancy of 80): Black, Alan Rickman,...
Last month, in a wantonly hip comparison, the Financial Times used two popular political drama series - Denmark's 'Borgen' and America's (though originally Britain's) 'House of Cards' - to explain the...
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