EARTH MATTERS
The anti-plastic movement gains traction, but there's still lots to do
food & drink
Digging a little deeper it becomes obvious that these 'reality' programmes are completely set up
THE EURO ZONE
Certainly, the Catalan secessionists did act illegally; but what about a lengthy ban from public office, rather than a decade behind bars?
THE BIGGER PICTURE
A Central Bank's muscular response to the Great Recession
A model that obliges both residents and tourists to make all their daily journeys in a private vehicle is not sustainable in the mid-term
In Vancouver 20 odd years ago, I came across three or four verses of poetry scrawled on a bus stop bench
THE EURO ZONE
Pedro Sánchez, desperate to strengthen his grip on power, knows that passing a budget is a basic test of a leadership's competence
food & drink
While in France, Italy, and most north European countries box wine is accepted as routine, the big sherry bodegas have blocked smaller bodegas from using it
It's one of those job titles that you see at the end of Starsky and Hutch when you're a child and you ask your dad for enlightenment - to no avail
How can having an environmentally friendly means of transport such as the train and not letting it run through the night despite a clear demand be explained?
PET CARE
Like humans, animals can exist without food for a considerable time... providing they have water
Excellence in leadership demands integrity and humility, it needs to know when it is time to say sorry, not least because if our leaders won't say sorry, what kind of unforgiving, blame-based society do they plan to lead?
It's astonishing how many successful people believe their triumphs to have been all of their own making
food & drink
Apparently everything in the food and restaurant business, whether wood-fired pizza ovens or lady sommeliers, has to be rated mediatically
THE EURO ZONe
Given that Spain's been without a fully-functioning administration since the end of April, it's hard not to regard the promise of a quick solution with scepticism
