The Guernica comes to London!

A couple of months ago I blogged about the Guernica painting by Picasso, a symbol of civilian suffering during armed conflicts. Well, now you don’t need me to tell you about it anymore because the Grauniad is reporting that the painting will be coming to London soon!
After this past month’s conflict in Gaza I believe the Guernica’s symbolism [...]

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Picasso’s Guernica

Years ago my dad told me how this painting has become a sort of symbol to left wing people in Spain. My parents have a copy of Picasso’s masterpiece at home and on that spirit I bought a copy of the painting mysel to hang on my flat in London.
Now Lena Gieseke, a 3D artist, [...]

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Saramago’s new blog

Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner, has started his very own blog. This is extremely exciting not just because he’s obviously an extremely gifted writer but because he’s an extremely lucid analyst on everyday socio-political issues.
You can read the blog here.

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Stay at home Saturday reading

Brilliant post by Charlie Beckett in defense of ‘amateur’ creativity in the face of professional journalists’ patronising attitude to the blogosphere. Essential reading.

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Ikea hacker

I hope everyone excuses the low level of activity recently in the blog. I’m really busy with my dissertation which is due September 1 plus frankly I can’t find anything interesting to report in the blog that you can’t read in the newspapers everyday. At the moment my brain is engaged in a continuous analysis [...]

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Martians at 70

The Spanish Academy of Radio has had a great idea to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Orson Welle’s famous War of the Worlds radio address, a replay of the piece.
On October 30 1938 Orson Welles terrified the US with a radio version of the famous work by H. G. Wells. The news style radio programme [...]

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A graphic history of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)

The Ministry of Culture in Spain has put up on the internet the ‘Rojo Archive’. The archive was created by the democratic Republican government at the beginning of the war. It’s believed to be named after Republican General Vicente Rojo who organised the resistance in Madrid against the Francoist troops after the democratic government had [...]

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Flower power v actual power

Waiting for the Holland-France match to start I overheard on the BBC that in the early days of the Isle of Wight music festival the anarchic nature of the event was so shocking to the locals and the political class than in 1971 Parliament passed a new act, encouraged by the Isle of Wight MP, [...]

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Andersen v Dickens

Who hasn’t experienced in his life the akward moment of the guest who wouldn’t leave? The guest that keeps talking even beyond the point when you are not interested anymore and all you want is to go to bed or simply be left alone…well it seems such ordinary and excruciating moment also happened to Charles [...]

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