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There was a time when the BBC was not solely inhabited by individuals who spoke with plummy, public-school accents which located their upbri...

The Balearic government is the first regional authority in Spain to lodge a challenge to the implementation of provisions under Madrid's...

And so we come full circle. More or less. Tit for tat. Education and language, two sides of a coin that has only one face. We are back to 20...

Well, you know how it is. You wait an eternity for a fair and then three of them turn up at once. Let's be grateful there are only thr...

A publishing house closed last month. It was eighty years old and was one of Mallorca's most important and most famous publishing comp...

Whatever one makes of Jaume Sastre's hunger strike over the Balearic Government's education and language policy, there can be no dou...

I have a question. It is one that, I suppose, I should send in three languages, addressed to President Bauzá with a copy to education minist...

Joey Barton is not and never has been an important footballer. Joey might like to think that he is important, but because he isn't, he h...

Alcúdia town hall has taken what appears to be a rather odd decision. It has agreed that requirements for any council job will include diffe...

The Catalan language arrived in Mallorca on horseback. Jaume I of Aragon rode across his newly conquered domain, dispensing Catalan linguist...

At a Sant Antoni celebration in Muro one year, a friend and I took ourselves away from our group that was assembled at a bar terrace in orde...

It may not have been 31 December on Friday, but this didn't stop there being an awards ceremony in honour of 31 December. And why would ...

Ed Miliband would, under a future Labour government, make it a stipulation that every Briton would have to speak English. He also would appe...

You might think that García is not a Mallorcan name. Strictly speaking, it isn't even a Spanish name. It was first recorded in the regio...

The Ramon Llull Institute is a body that was founded ten years ago. Its purpose is to promote the Catalan language and Catalan culture, the ...

The object of all manner of graffiti and various campaigns, the Osborne bull statue near Algaida has now become embroiled in the defence of ...

You might have been wondering what Alcúdia town hall was making of all the kerfuffle to do with Catalan, as it had been notably silent on th...

Current and former members of the Partido Popular have come together to create the "Moviment per la Llengua" to counter the Balear...

An unusual level of accord has broken out at Pollensa town hall. Along with the general agreement related to Ullal (see "Ullal proposal...

I am not a newsagent loyalist. Given that a journey is required for whichever newsagent I might patronise, each day brings its moment of dec...