Matthew Tree

YouTube video by poliller Arias Navarro recitant Joan Brossa

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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.

Musk's Grokipedia is a cesspool of white supremacist and Neo Nazi garbage. Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times

Com un llum Durant les atrocitats comeses per l'IDF a Gaza, el partit Republicà criticava durament qualsevol protesta que hi anava en contra, titllant-la d'antisemita. És cert que entre els protestants hi havia.....

L'article d'avui (16/11/95) al Punt Avui sobre les discrepàncies ultradretanes nord-americanes....
www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...

fantàstic. M'has fet venir gana!

Thought for food Last month, the gastronomic writer Jaume Fàbrega brought out his 85th book. I'll repeat that: his 85th book. Fàbrega has written at length about Catalan cuisine (one of his works on the subject runs...

This is the November article for Catalonia Today magazine, about a Catalan food expert and his book about how Catalan dishes are now popping up all over the world.
www.cataloniatoday.cat/article/2594...

Thought for food Last month, the gastronomic writer Jaume Fàbrega brought out his 85th book. I'll repeat that: his 85th book. Fàbrega has written at length about Catalan cuisine (one of his works on the subject runs...

This is the November article for Catalonia Today magazine, about a Catalan food expert and his book about how Catalan dishes are now popping up all over the world.
www.cataloniatoday.cat/article/2594...

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‘Déjà Vu’, a short, short article about how some of Spain’s more linguistically prejudiced judges are up to their old, old tricks. - Matthew Tree Those naughty Spanish judges have done it again. The process is always the same: an ’independent’ civil association takes the Catalan government’s Department of Education to court in order to stop the...

matthewtree.net/2025/11/04/d...

Dol No diré cap nom, en part perquè crec que ella, persona més aviat discreta, no ho hauria volgut i en part perquè els que la coneixien ja sabran qui és. La vaig conèixer a Londres, on treballàvem...

'Dol'. L'article d'avui (2/11/25) al Punt Avui: www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...

Shadow World: A New Musical by Matthew Schmolle - Indiegogo Help 'Shadow World', inspired by Andrew Feinstein’s acclaimed arms trade exposé, hit the stage.

The composer Karl Lewkovitz (who wrote the hit musical 'Goodbye Barcelona') is in the process of turning Andrew Feinstein's book 'The Shadow World', an exposé of the international arms industry, into a truly amazing musical. www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

Updating my LEGO White House

And it's not difficult. Catalan is my second language (Spanish comes third: I learnt it six years after Catalan) so I speak Catalan all the time simply out of convenience. And I hardly ever have any problems, be it in Nou Barris or Banyoles. If I can do that, so can anyone else, if they wish.

A short article in the October issue of Catalonia Today magazine about yet another attempt by linguistically prejudiced Spanish judges to limit the use and teaching of Catalan.
www.cataloniatoday.cat/article/2586...

El vespre dels sants A jutjar per la quantitat de bruixes de sucre i carbasses de xocolata que van aparèixer als supermercats, com per art de màgia, fa unes setmanes, qualsevol hauria dit que Halloween estava a punt de ca...

Un article breu al Punt Avui d'avui (19/10/25) sobre els orígens de - i les diferències entre - Halloween i la Castanyada. www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents ‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

A brand new review of ‘Just Looking’ by Michael Eaude, occasional literary critic for Catalonia Today magazine and The Independent newspaper. - Matthew Tree Four disparate people meet on a cruise-ship: the main narrator Jim who has just separated from his wife of 20 years; the brilliant alcoholic journalist, Jean-Pierre; his girlfriend Helen; and the youn...

A new review for the novel 'Just Looking', now on my blog, should anyone ask.
matthewtree.net/2025/10/09/a...

Bravo!

Viola la seva filla de 20 anys al carrer i davant del seu altre fill de 8 anys. L'enxampen els mossos. La filla diu que no és el primer cop. Ni defensa, ni fiscalía demanen presó. La jutge, "no pot fer res". Llibertat amb ordre d'allunyament de 200 PUTUS METRES.
Acaba de trencar ordre d'allunyament

Los AC/ DC en Lloret de Mar 1983

La crisi del paper Al mes de maig passat, el règim de Trump va retallar subvencions d'1,2 milions de dòlars a moltes editorials petites –que funcionen com una opció alternativa vital per contrast amb les grans editorial...

L'article d'avui (5/10/25) al Punt Avui, sobre la censura de segons quins textos. www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...

Sleepwalking to the end of humanity Set 15 years in the future, Just Looking is an assault on racism and a warning against fascism. Le Pen, explains the undercover journalist Jean-Pierre at the start, is passé . Now new French fascis...

An (almost) embarrassingly good review of the novel 'Just Looking' and a couple of others by Michael Eaude, literary critic of Catalonia Today and until recently of the Independent newspaper.
www.cataloniatoday.cat/article/2577...

Just thought I'd leave this here (again).

YouTube video by The Guardian You don't think it will happen to you: a deep friendship forged on Ukraine's frontline

Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2e...

There two new posts (short, previously published articles) on my website. One about arriving in Barcelona 40 years ago and another about a recent visit to five death camps.https://matthewtree.net/blog/

WHAT I DID IN THE HOLIDAYS In 1963, the Holocaust survivor Joaquim Amat-Piniella published the autobiographical novel 'K.L. Reich' (recently reprinted); in 1977, the writer Montserrat Roig brought out a non-fiction book called....

The September article for Catalonia Today magazine, about death camps and other things...
www.cataloniatoday.cat/article/2578...

ARRIVAL - 08 Jun 2025 After the summer, a new TV channel called 2Cat will be starting up in Catalonia, broadcasting integrally in Catalan. What might raise a few eyebrows is the fact that 2Cat is being financed by Radiotel...

The June/August article for Catalonia Today magazine, now available on the internet. www.cataloniatoday.cat/article/2544...

La revelació Fa un parell de setmanes una notícia força transcendental per la humanitat sencera va fer la volta del món, Catalunya inclosa. Malgrat tot, no sembla que la gent en general li hagi fet gaire cas. Ras....

L'article d'avui (21/09/25) al Punt Avui, sobre la vida a Mart i com no la trobarem gràcies al senyor Trump.
www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...

Un homenatge molt bonic i molt variat (música, parlaments, tristor, humor) ahir a Girona, a la Rosario Palomino, fundadora del grup 'No em canviïs la llengua'.

Demà mateix. Obert a tothom.

Jo no he deixat de llegir llibre en paper al transport públic i molts cops m’he fixat que sóc l’únic. Potser si que ara hi ha algú més.