Roman shields were made from painted prison-issue rubbish bins (but looked oddly authentic).
It began as a challenge to the vociferous minority of commenters on the site who seem to believe (judging from what they write) that being a professional columnist on the Guardian is a licence to write ill-informed rubbish about the issues of the moment.
The result: a theatrical rubbishing of standard-issue politics, awash with cant, that will actually leave the essential features of the political class unchanged.
"There is a high density of people, a lot of food outlets, and [it's] a place where just getting rid of the rubbish is the main issue," is his rather diplomatic answer.
But Spanish and French police would have to stay away, requiring at least a silent nod from Mr Rajoy.EH Bildu's incursion into everyday politics forces it to confront such mundane issues as rubbish collection and planning laws, which affect Basques' everyday lives, rather than dreaming of independence.
Tougher measures are also in hand; the area may see a repeat of a six-week drive at the end of last year which saw 55 fixed-penalty notices and 575 warning notices issued over rubbish or bins left on pavements where the elderly or blind/partially-sighted could find them a dangerous obstacle.
This year's local elections, usually fought on important local issues from rubbish collection to fly tipping, have been gifted a unique importance: for the first time in 30 years, a local election campaign precedes a general election in the same year.
"To say 'your beliefs are to me rubbish' shouldn't be an issue; we had an Enlightenment".
He was the first among his contemporaries to take the environment as an issue, with the "Rubbish Project," a naga snake 225 meters, about 740 feet, long, that was made from recycled plastic, mostly discarded bags dumped in the Siem Reap.
