Every year, the town of As Pontes de Garcia Rodriguez, in the north-western Spanish province of Galicia, organises an annual event, the Feria do Grelo, celebrating one of the local speciality vegetables, rapini, or broccoli rabe, which is a turnip-like vegetable used in regional dishes. Web masters for the town were keen to broadcast details of this unusual festival to
The Daily Mail’s campaign “Betrayal of the Brave” to persuade Mr Cameron and his colleagues to grant Afghan interpreters asylum in the UK seems to be paying off. (see our blogs The plight of Afghani interpreters (continued), Afghani interpreters still left to their fate, John Oliver on “Translators”: The plight of Afghani interpreters). The paper reports (October 17) that “Sam”, whose life was
Countries of the Arab world have played an important role in geo-politics in the past century or so. Sadly, the current situation is one of turmoil rather than the orderly progression of society. It was not always so. From the 7C to the 13C, Arab learning dominated world civilisation, whilst European nations were still struggling to create their own distinct
