Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Nov 29, 2009, 8:15 am
So in a month, Christmas will already be gone and New Year's Eve will be looming over us. Tonight we have El Clásico, it's getting dark early and it's pretty cool outside. In other words,...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Nov 25, 2009, 8:02 am
This poll was inspired by a brief conversation I had with a couple of other expats over at another website. The discussion started as a debate about January 6th being made a 'new public holiday...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Nov 25, 2009, 2:19 am
South of Watford has a post today about an incident that I was planning to write about. Apparently, the British fascist party, the BNP, attended a meeting in Madrid on the 21st. Also present at the me...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Nov 20, 2009, 1:37 pm
Franco's Little Helper* over at Kalebeul has an amusingly perverse analysis of how the two major political parties in Spain account for most of the local corruption investigations here. The great ...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Nov 15, 2009, 11:49 am
OK, this is a repost of a comment I left on CiF. But I've been blogging so little recently, I reckon it's acceptable. Referring to Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and their take on the insani...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Nov 10, 2009, 4:58 pm
There are lots of reasons I could offer for avoiding Lidl like the plague. The design of their logo, for example, or the way their shops make you feel like you've stepped into some sort of future/...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Oct 30, 2009, 3:18 pm
Well, he may not have intended this exactly, but it's rather lovely. Click here to view the embedded video. Related Posts:Monday music: Jeffrey Lewis sings Crass songs@George Bush: haha everyone...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Oct 23, 2009, 12:44 pm
While Gemma watches the atrociously bad Audrey Tatou in Coco: The Story Of Her Boring Life (it's something like that), I'm stuck here listening to the Velvet Underground. And now I'm forci...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Oct 23, 2009, 10:58 am
If you haven't seen last night's Question Time, you probably should. You can find it all on YouTube (UK residents, look on BBC iPlayer). Nick Griffin (whose ancestors were apparently traveller...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Oct 17, 2009, 12:01 pm
Let us not forget what this march in Madrid is really all about… Click here to view the embedded video. Related Posts:@George Bush: haha everyone thinks you're a dick!Royal Trux: When Terr...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Oct 11, 2009, 2:49 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. Oh yeah, and here's why Click here to view the embedded video. Related Posts:thebadPoll: Song for a desert islandLet's Fighting Love@George Bush: haha...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Oct 11, 2009, 1:41 pm
I'll be honest: except for Marxist theories about capital and exploitation, I generally eschew any discussion that covers banking and that huge, murky industry known as 'finance'. This is ...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Oct 11, 2009, 1:03 pm
I've been off work for a few days due to a wicked cold, which has left me thinking that probably the last thing I need to do is spend more time in front of my computer. But all the same, there are...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 30, 2009, 1:57 am
Gemma and I are beginning the process of looking for a new house. Our awesome little flat in Cerdanyola del Vallès was perfect as a starting point for our life together here but 7 years on, it's ...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 27, 2009, 1:17 pm
This post could have been a kind of thebadPoll but in the end, I decided an open question suits the subject matter better. Gemma and I watched the Granada TV (UK) 1983 documentary about the Spanish c...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 20, 2009, 4:41 pm
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, has been 'invited' to head up the electoral list of a Catalan separatist party. Reagrupament, a group that split from Esquerra Republicana (essenti...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 19, 2009, 1:22 pm
Now before I get started with this re-inauguration of thebadPoll, let me clarify something: this is a different type of thebadPoll that's entirely comment-driven. The old fashioned voting one will...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 18, 2009, 1:24 pm
Hello rainstorm, come into my life Related Posts:"If it looks suspicious..." LondonThis is war! War makes madness! This is madness?An interesting point...Wow! FC Barcelona win the Champions League 2-...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 18, 2009, 1:16 pm
thebadrash posted a photo: Taken from the Softonic offices as a large rainstorm moved in. Taken with my HTC Magic Android phone.
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 10, 2009, 2:00 am
While at work the other day, I stumbled upon a Facebook application called simply "I am British". Emblazoned with a Union Jack, the app's homepage shows that it has over 90,000 'fans'. So ...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 7, 2009, 5:26 am
Now I don't know how late Giles Tremlett filed this story about Barcelona. But the Guardian has it timestamped at 1938 Madrid time, which is certainly late enough to have come after a very hearty ...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 4, 2009, 2:03 am
A non-binding public consultation on Catalan independence, which was due to take place in Arenys de Munt this September 13th has been banned. A judge in Barcelona accepted the Madrid government's ...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Sep 3, 2009, 2:30 am
It's the biggest political scandal in Spain for years. Numerous activists, officials, elected representatives and friends of the Partido Popular appear to be linked to a corruption case known as G...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Aug 31, 2009, 6:58 am
Click here to view the embedded video. 12 Crass Songs is a freaking amazing album. Buy it now and have your life improved. Lewis takes songs by the anarchist punk collective Crass and converts them i...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Aug 28, 2009, 3:06 pm
In case you've never tasted this slice of delicious yé-yé cake, here's France Gall duetting with Maurice Biraud on 'La Petite'. The lyrics, for those who didn't take French, talk...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Aug 20, 2009, 6:36 am
Some people in Spain take their olives very seriously indeed. Like this chap from Gijón who received a dish of olives as a tapa to accompany the drink he'd ordered. Upon trying the olives, he ap...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Aug 19, 2009, 8:18 am
(click for bigger) These posters can be seen all around London. I rather like the design, though only because it appears that the designer must have intentionally lampooned the surveillance society. ...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Aug 17, 2009, 8:52 am
This billboard is on my walk from the bus to work. It's advertising the 'This is war! Robert Capa at work' photographic exhibition which has come to Barcelona after a successful stint in L...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Jul 26, 2009, 7:54 am
…Iberian Notes stopped being updated. Just thought I'd remind you. A whole year of reduced blood pressure and increased happiness. I really never thought he'd be able to last a year. An...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Jul 23, 2009, 3:20 pm
If 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 ...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Jul 16, 2009, 8:13 am
This was on the Today programme yesterday morning. The BBC are considering allowing atheists to offer their thoughts in the Thought for the Day section. Currently, only religious people are invited to...
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Tom C. posted an article on thebadrash.com - Jul 12, 2009, 5:47 pm
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