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I guess I have always been a bit of a leftie. Not that I have ever taken it particularly seriously. At university it was more a case of play...

From the early-70s to the late-80s I spent a considerable amount of holiday time in Greece. It was a period of transition for the country - ...

One of the more bizarre cases involving performing rights in the UK concerned the so-called "singing granny" who found herself on ...

Imagine the excitement. True celebrity comes to Alcúdia. Has photos taken. Appears in newspapers. Who can it be? Who is that ageing and wast...

Any idea who Ivan Murray is? Probably not. So I shall tell you. His grandmother was Canadian of Scottish origin, he lives in Port Soller and...

Stuff that has been taken from the Spanish and put into English does have to be treated with a bit of care. There were two things yesterday....

One can predict with a certain degree of certainty that this year will witness further heat steaming from forums and newspaper letters pages...

It was another holiday yesterday. For once, not a religious occasion, but a political one. Balearics Day, the twenty-seventh anniversary of ...

Well, what a surprise. The change in regional government that has created the "super" ministry of environment, planning and transp...

Maria Antònia Munar, matriarch of the Unió Mallorquina party and of Mallorcan politics, has finally quit her post as speaker of the Balearic...

There was a very good letter in "The Bulletin" yesterday. It came from Ian Morrison, a name some of you will be familiar with. Yo...

The quadratic affront to the eye that is the Can Ramis building in Alcúdia old town (12 December: Toy Story - The Can Ramis Building) is an ...

The Spanish equivalent of the Consumers' Association is an organisation called FACUA. It would be interesting to know if FACUA has contr...

What do you do on a Sunday afternoon? Any time between, say, three and six? In the UK, you may settle down on the sofa to watch the football...

In inviting passengers to vote on ways that Michael O'Leary could settle a dispute with Stelios, Ryanair refer to themselves as "th...

Our friend Pedro Iriondo, the head of the Mallorca tourist board (Fomento del Turismo) and a chap who looks variously like Nixon (the film v...

Old town Alcúdia. Friday evening in February, not exactly buzzing with huge numbers of diners, albeit that it is only twenty past seven. Hal...

So much for confident statements. On 29 January I said that work on the golf course on the Son Bosc finca in Muro would start in two weeks. ...

The geriatric, very vintage rock of recent vintage in Palma, the creaking bones and voices of a Cocker, a Cohen and a Quo, is to be supplant...

You've just put the shampoo into your hair and the shower suddenly dries up; you've set the washing-machine going and then it sudden...