If they don't explain to me what it means, what advantages it has, and what it can mean to live in a large metropolitan area of Palma, right off the bat, I don't want to live there. I don't want to be part of it.

ARCA has publicly clarified that it is not responsible for the ultras having turned the fascist monument of La Feixina into their sentimental altar. And the truth is that it is difficult to decide whether it is more extraordinary that a heritage entity considers it necessary to justify itself or that it states –as it has done in ARA Balears– that “preserving La Feixina has not contributed to it becoming the ‘ultra’ meeting point”. Perhaps the extreme part of the extreme right would continue for centuries and centuries celebrating in front of nothing. I don't see it.

Marga Prohens' Government will create a Baccalaureate of Excellence –a name chosen by themselves, with all the ideological baggage it implies– and will establish a specific institute to gather the “excellent” students there. It is hard to find a more anti-pedagogical initiative. Or worse still, a more profoundly reactionary one.

The history of the art trade in Mallorca cannot be understood without the emergence, at the end of the 19th century, of a society that turned painting into an object of desire and a business capable of moving significant capital. We are talking about the Foment de la Pintura i Escultura, a social entity active in the city between 1876 and 1904, but about which little has been said until now. The restorer of works of art José María Pardo Falcón now reconstructs that collective adventure in the essay-book "La sociedad del Fomento de la Pintura y Escultura. Palma 1876-1904", edited by Ensiola and with a prologue by professor Catalina Cantarellas. The volume will be presented on May 7 at the Quars bookstore, in a conversation between the author and Cantarellas herself.

40 years ago, the Balearic Parliament approved the Law of Linguistic Normalization. Forty years later, while it is true that the situation of Catalan as the native and co-official language of the Islands has not been normalized, it is also true that too often abnormality is accompanied by apocalyptic diagnoses. There are reasons for concern: Catalan is losing presence in many areas and young people, especially in informal relationships, are increasingly communicating in Spanish. However, if we only look at the glass half empty, we fail to see a part of the reality that is equally significant.

It has always been said that chocolates are a safe gift, that they never fail, that everyone likes them and that they are not very compromising. Except, of course, when inside the box there are not chocolates but banknotes. Then it is no longer a detail, it is a declaration of intentions. And quite vintage, by the way.

“Some people say it is possible to become truly Spanish if one makes an effort. Others, on the contrary, think that to be truly Spanish one must have been born Spanish. Which of these opinions do you agree with more?”.

If it weren't really happening, it would seem like a script fromThe Intermission in particularly inspired moments. In the next plenary session, the Palma City Council – with the votes of the PP and Vox – will declare Pedro Sánchez persona non grataYes, in the city council meeting. Yes, to the Spanish Prime Minister. Yes, at a time when Palma is facing serious problems such as housing, overtourism, and the decline of local businesses. But no, the priority of the Cort government team is to perform a kind of institutional exorcism against Sánchez.