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English Press in Spain

Posted Thursday, October 30th, 2008

This was going to be a rant about the Euro Weekly and their racist, puerile, anti Magaret Thatcher columnists, but then I realised I couldn’t be bothered.
So instead, I went for a short walk and looked at a rack of the “English” press. Here are the headlines:
The Sun: “Russell yelled “Qué?” in bed (and didn’t [...]

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The “offensive” advert

Posted Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Colin Davies brought this story to my attention (can’t see how I didn’t spot it before!). It’s a full page ad that the Spanish Basketball association ran (see it here on elpais.com), which shows the Spanish Olympic Basketball team, in full regalia, pulling the sides of their eyes up to try to imitate “oriental” eyes. [...]

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