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Feb 9, 2012, 2:49 pm
Spanish magistrate* Baltasar Garzón was today found guilty in an illegal wiretap trial, one of three cases currently open against him. The Supreme Court has banned him from working as a judge for eleven years, effectively ending his career as a famed 'crusader for justice'.
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Jan 25, 2012, 2:41 pm
Francisco Camps, former PP president of the Valencian autonomous community was today acquitted of corruption after a witch-hunt in Valencia's courts that has lasted nearly three years. The put-upon ex local party leader was ruled not guilty in a near-unanimous verdict of 5-4 by a jury this evening, ... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2011, 1:06 pm
Spain election result: The right wing PP (Partido Popular) has won a massive victory in Spain's general elections today. They have achieved an absolute majority, as well as controlling all of the regions of Spain except Catalonia and Euskadi (Basque Country).
Live updates below.
21:53 - With 67% o... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2011, 5:19 am
Mariano Rajoy's PP will win tomorrow's general elections in Spain. The size of the majority it achieves will shape Spanish and Catalan politics for the next few years.
The prospect of seeing the PP in power again after 8 years is not a happy one. While I'm no fan of the PSOE (I think I called them ... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2011, 6:21 am
Hello there! Long time, no see!
Over the years, this blog has evolved. At first I shared links (that's what blogs used to be for), talked about books and music, and explored some of my innocent ideas about politics. Some time after March 2004, I felt inexorably drawn into the debate on Catalan lang... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2011, 2:27 pm
I've been in San Francisco since last Saturday and I leave this today. It's a short visit and work-related but as my first visit to the USA, I thought I'd jot down some thoughts.
The City
It's a pleasant place. No one would say that the city itself is particularly beautiful (the towers of the fina... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2011, 12:06 pm
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Sep 9, 2011, 6:10 pm
One of the best things about the modern holiday is disconnection. Many of us spend our work days and nights tethered one way or another. So the holiday provides us with an old-fashioned life: we cook with gas, we suffer the small refrigerator (we still waste food, weirdly), we get our news from the ... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2011, 6:57 am
I've got stuff to do, stuff to write, stuff to discuss. But rather than get on with that, here's a haircut of sorts. While I decide on whether or not I'll be rebranding this blog and retiring 'thebadrash' to millennia of purgatory. Have a nice diada on Sunday, by the way.
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Jul 22, 2011, 3:52 am
...not that you'd notice. We'll be in Cerdanyola, but also visiting some places here and there from time to time. Behave yourselves and try to enjoy this abysmal summer.
I'll leave you with this paean to Steven Segal, 'Stevie (for Steven S.)' by the ever wonderful Royal Trux.
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Jul 20, 2011, 12:58 pm
The PP president of Valencia, Francisco Camps, has finally resigned today [link in Catalan] after two years of outright lies in the Gürtel corruption case.
He started changing his story last week, after he said there 'was a chance' he received several suits and other items as gifts from companies... Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2011, 8:29 pm
Boing Boing is one of the most enjoyable blogs around. It combines silly shit with genuinely interesting shit in a format that people like me have loved for years. From time to time, editors of Boing Boing, respected as they are as media experts, get a chance to comment on current affairs on newspap... Comment - Like
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Jun 16, 2011, 2:55 am
Numerous pieces of evidence have surfaced that seem to prove that the Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalonia's autonomous police force, used agents provocateurs during yesterday's #15M movement protests outside the Catalan parliament. The protesters had gathered in the parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona in an... Comment - Like
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Jun 13, 2011, 1:48 pm
Some of the stuff I've been reading/doing recently:
"Article is all wrong" - the Vietnam War remains a controversial topic for some, as this Wikipedia discussion illustrates
Babylon Falling - 60s counterculture, 90s hiphop, underground press - one of the best Tumblr sites I've seen in ages
Diaspo... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 11:23 am
Protest Camp, Plaça Catalunya, Barcelona #acampadabcn, a set on Flickr.
I had the chance to spend a little time in the protest camp in Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona today. I'm no good at estimating the size of crowds but there were many more people around today than there were yesterday. Here are ... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 4:11 am
Many people who live in Spain, as well as lots of observers outside the country, have been asking the same question for the last few months: where are the young people?
With youth unemployment as high as 46% and the PSOE ('Socialist') government using the economic crisis as an excuse to force throu... Comment - Like
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Apr 6, 2011, 5:55 am
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Mar 23, 2011, 3:40 am
As 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 lots recently, thanks to the input of an uninterested friend who knows something about geopolitics in Eur... Comment - Like
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Feb 26, 2011, 7:27 am
Note: I feel that I should point out that we were only in Sierra Leone for 9 days, and spent all of our time on the Freetown peninsula. Naturally, I could never claim to be an expert on the place after such a brief and limited visit. But I hope that my impressions might count for something, especial... Comment - Like
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Feb 25, 2011, 1:39 pm
The latest issue of Monocle magazine includes a report on work hours around the world. It starts off by interviewing one Nuria Chinchilla of IESE Barcelona (where I get sent for re-education from time to time). The segment includes this line (written by the author, Sophie Grove, not la Chinchilla):
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Feb 25, 2011, 5:31 am
Primavera Sound, my favourite festival in the world, takes place between the 25th and the 29th of May this year. We'll be there, with our Ray Bans and our camera. See you on the grassy bit?
Lineup 2011 (my picks in bold):
Aias (SPA)
Ainara LeGardon (SPA)
Animal Collective (US)
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Feb 24, 2011, 5:32 am
Note: I feel that I should point out that we were only in Sierra Leone for 9 days, and spent all of our time on the Freetown peninsula. Naturally, I could never claim to be an expert on the place after such a brief and limited visit. But I hope that my impressions might count for something, especial... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2011, 9:30 am
This is a busy time of year. I have lots of work on. Gemma and I are going on holiday to Sierra Leone next month and I need to buy some shorts.
Updates are planned soon, so please bear with me.
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Jan 14, 2011, 10:51 am
If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed that I went to the doctor the other day. Apart from very occasional trips to get the baixa/alta when I had flu, and once when I broke a rib, I generally avoid doctors. In fact, this was the first scheduled appointment I've ever had in Spain... the ... Comment - Like
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Jan 12, 2011, 11:00 am
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Jan 11, 2011, 12:00 pm
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Jan 11, 2011, 6:42 am
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Dec 29, 2010, 2:50 pm
MGMT - Congratulations
Following their hit debut, Oracular Spectacular, was always going to be difficult. And lots of people seemed to find Congratulations a let down. True, it's lighter on obvious hits than the last disc. But this album makes up for that by being an unabashed bit of hero worship. ... Comment - Like
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Dec 23, 2010, 9:29 am
A Tarragona Christmas this year, with all the wine and flamenco music that implies.
If I find the time, I will try to write some blog posts soon about Cerdanyola's toxic dumps, Asbestos, Linguistic immersion ("it's finished" or "nothing has changed", depending who you believe), Recent events in Lon... Comment - Like
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Dec 8, 2010, 11:31 am
I've not written anything about WikiLeaks recently because I've found the whole circus surrounding Julian Assange rather dizzying. Reading the commentariat on Guardian Cif has hardly helped my feverish state of mind over the last few days and I must admit that I found myself beginning to loathe my f... Comment - Like
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Dec 8, 2010, 5:13 am
[I intended to write this sooner but I've been rather knocked out with flu since Saturday.]
The press was full of it: on the evening of December 3rd, the Spanish military 'took over' air traffic control towers across Spain at the request of the government. Air traffic controllers (ATCs) had, we wer... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2010, 5:57 am
When I published my post Some Questions for a Catalan Independentist, I hoped that people would engage with the questions and enter into spirited debate. I later realised that to deal with them properly, each question deserves its own thread. I hope that this helps to foster a polite and friendly de... Comment - Like
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Nov 28, 2010, 3:03 pm
UPDATED
Current results (99% of votes counted):
CiU 62
PSC 28
PPC 18
ICV-EUiA 10
ERC 10
SI 4
C's 3
(PxC 0)
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The first results of today's Catalan elections are in. CiU have won a convincing majority, which was to be expected. The PP has replaced ERC as the third largest group in Catal... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2010, 2:59 am
Many 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 Greece and now Ireland are a sort of water-borne disease, transmitted through the sewage-laden stream... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2010, 4:46 am
UPDATED: View the election results here
There's one week to go until this year's elections to the Catalan parliament. And that means that the competing parties are ramping up their campaigns, desperate to convince wary voters that they offer Catalonia the best chance of recovery and stability. Fool... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2010, 7:02 am
...er, I forgot all about it. Maybe I'll even get around to writing a blog post this weekend as penance.
But as a blogging guru (yes, that's official), I'll probably be there next year. Enjoy, fellow ninjas, evangelists and gurus.
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Nov 6, 2010, 6:06 am
One of the most frustrating debates I have with other expats (never Spaniards) in Barcelona is the one about Catalan school teaching. I know various Poles, Brits and Germans who bang on about Catalan being a stupid/dead/useless language and how they'd rather have their (real or imagined) kids educat... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2010, 3:07 am
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Oct 17, 2010, 1:57 pm
Comedy is probably my most dominating vice, more alluring to me than women or wine. And, much as I've studied the finer qualities of those other two, I feel - well, it's sort of an obligation - I need to watch and to criticise and assess and ponder comedy every single day.
I once went to see Russ A... Comment - Like
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