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Fighting a common enemy – is my enemy’s enemy really my friend?

March 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

I’m not a fan in any respect of Lluis Llach, but there are many people in Catalonia to whom he means a great deal. As a protest singer during the last 20 years of Franco’s dictatorship I suspect that you had to live through it with him in order for him to mean much.
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Do they think we are fools?

March 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments

Normally at home we watch TV3, which is a Catalan channel. The reasons for doing so are simple. First, it shows all programmes in Dual, so I can watch English language programmes in English. Second, the programmes are, on the whole, much better than any of the Spanish language channels. Lastly as I live with [...]

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