THE EURO ZONE
Despite their provisional nature, the latest GDP forecasts do show one thing very clearly: that to avoid further economic damage, Spain's Socialist-led government must do all it can to avoid a second nationwide quarantine
food & drink
When I started in the business, one of the hardest self-restraints at tastings was to learn to spit out good wine rather than swallow it. What a waste, I used to think, almost an insult to the poor winemaker. There must be a better way
REVIEW
Two showstopping exhibitions. One spotlighting masks...
food & drink
How do the French eat four times as much butter and 60 per cent more cheese than other nations, and still stay slim and healthy with, allegedly, no more heart disease than anyone else?
THE EURO ZONE
The mutual animosity between the governing Socialists and the conservative Popular Party (PP) was on display again this week
THE MUSIC MAKER
The dreary hipsters at TwitFace headquarters need to introduce a 'rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-but-not-in-a-good-way' option and, crucially, it needs to be anonymous
THE BOTTOM LINE
They have had six months to organise getting everyone back in the classroom and they have done nothing
THE BOTTOM LINE
Though the nights are clearly drawing in and autumn is just around the corner, there are few signs to suggest it strange time is drawing to an end
THE MUSIC MAKER
The truth is, Rolling Stones albums in their entirety were never very good
THE EURO ZONE
The disparities between the number of new Covid cases recorded in different regions of Spain highlight the flaws of a centralised approach to the virus
food & drink
A bumper harvest would mean millions more bottles to be enjoyed at home, in restaurants, and exported. Usually...
THE EURO ZONE
Nadia Calviño, one of the country's four deputy prime ministers, said this week that the "revival is under way". But it's not the first time that she has spun this line...
THE MUSIC MAKER
I think it would be better if we praised each other only for what we'd actually worked for, rather than any God given gifts
food & drink
Wines of course have been graded for decades, but do we really need to be insulted by media giant CNN's latest suggestions?
THE EURO ZONE
One thing is becoming increasingly clear: the biggest problem for Spanish tourism and hospitality is no longer the virus itself, it's the measures taken to control an exhausted and baffled public