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Matthew Tree
@matthewtree.bsky.social
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Writer in English and Catalan (my second language). 19 books out since 1996: fiction, non-fiction, autobiography, diatribes, a road book...
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L'article al Punt Avui d'avui (30/11/25) sobre la guerra civil més oblidada. www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...
L'altre
Segons l'ONG Genocide Watch, una de les pitjors guerres civils del segle XXI està tenint lloc ara mateix al Sudan, entre l'exèrcit del govern oficialista –reconegut per l'ONU– les Forces Armades...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Arias Navarro recitant Joan Brossa
YouTube video by poliller
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November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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
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.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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L'article d'avui (16/11/95) al Punt Avui sobre les discrepàncies ultradretanes nord-americanes....
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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.....
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November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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fantàstic. M'has fet venir gana!
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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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...
www.cataloniatoday.cat
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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@academiacinecat #PremisGaudí
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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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...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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'Dol'. L'article d'avui (2/11/25) al Punt Avui: www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...
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...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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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/...
Shadow World: A New Musical by Matthew Schmolle - Indiegogo
Help 'Shadow World', inspired by Andrew Feinstein’s acclaimed arms trade exposé, hit the stage.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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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...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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...
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...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
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
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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A new review for the novel 'Just Looking', now on my blog, should anyone ask.
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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...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Bravo!
segonaperiferia.bsky.social Editorial La Segona Perifèria @segonaperiferia.bsky.social · Oct 7
Avui fa dinou anys que Anna Politkóvskaia va ser assassinada. D'altres periodistes russes, però, parlen amb la seva veu. [Fragment de «El meu país estimat» de Ielena Kostiutxenko, tr. @miqcab.bsky.social]
October 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Los AC/ DC en Lloret de Mar 1983
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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L'article d'avui (5/10/25) al Punt Avui, sobre la censura de segons quins textos. www.elpuntavui.cat/opinio/artic...
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...
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October 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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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...
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...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Just thought I'd leave this here (again).
October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2e...
You don't think it will happen to you: a deep friendship forged on Ukraine's frontline
YouTube video by The Guardian
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October 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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/
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The September article for Catalonia Today magazine, about death camps and other things...
www.cataloniatoday.cat/article/2578...
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....
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September 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM