The Guardian and Catalonia

The Guardian tells the world that in Barcelona “wild boar are jostling tourists and raiding rubbish bins”. This is a stretch, to be polite. Yes, wild boar do come down from the Collserola park into town occasionally. This is a curious fact, but to suggest that the city is alive with the beasts threatening tourists on the Rambla and jostling them outside the Sagrada Familia is simply not true. Tourists hardly ever venture into the few parts of town where they are to be found. Pretty well everyone who lives in the upper part of town near the edge of the park has never seen one in the streets and would be astounded to do so. Moreover, this article is of no topical interest. It is a rehash of one that appeared in La Vanguardia on 1 May 2018.

The Guardian tells the world the utterly trivial fact that Burger King employees in Barcelona have won a court case allowing them to wear beards.

The Guardian does not tell the world that the Catalan government has been spying on children in school playgrounds to find what language they speak.

The Guardian does not tell the world that Catalan premier Quim Torra has been fined a total of €8,500 for failing to maintain the neutrality of his government institutions during the election campaign in the spring by sending politically loaded pro-independence emails to public officials and by refusing to remove pro-independence symbols from government buildings

Torra made a mockery of the Electoral Commission's ruling
by replacing the yellow ribbon with a white one

Source (Spanish)

Quim Torra asegura que no pagará las multas de un «órgano represor» como la Junta Electoral Central

(Quim Torra says that he will not pay the fines imposed by a “repressive body” like the Central Electoral Commission)