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The people of the Balearics have been asked what they think about the political situation in the islands and in the country. The good news i...

In a year's time Spain faces a Franco issue. "El Caudillo" died on 20 November, 1975. Does the fortieth anniversary merit so...

In one of its not infrequent moments of translation comedy gold, the trilinguistically-correct Balearic Government recently pressed the clic...

The world of showbiz is inhabited by those who consider themselves well positioned to make pronouncements on matters far removed from the st...

The Economy Circle is an organisation that through literal translation sounds slightly odd. In its original it is Cercle d'Economia de M...

Justice, administered and delivered by judges and magistrates in Spain, is administered and delivered in the name of the King. The King, in ...

On one day, events come together that forge the impression of an unravelling. The word unravelling, in its literal sense, means an undoing o...

One of the dangers with "burning issues" for the expatriate community is that we end up repeating ourselves, myself included. If n...

It was thirty years ago today that Spain's new democracy faced huge uncertainty. While Antonio Tejero was the public face of the failed ...

23-F. The Spanish love a number and a letter. Great events and not so great events become numerical and alphabetic abbreviations through whi...

In a café - Spanish - the other afternoon, the television was on. Nothing unusual in this. What was, was what was on. There was a platform o...

Matters of British politics are not my usual fare on this blog, but permit me this one blemish. Boris Johnson. Even before Boris acquired na...