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Are you frustrated with your attempts to learn the Spanish language? Do you find that every time you try to engage in a conversation with a local, you get a reply in English? This is Peter Edgerton's experience...
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Are you frustrated with your attempts to learn the Spanish language? Do you find that every time you try to engage in a conversation with a local, you get a reply in English? This is Peter Edgerton's experience...
15 Mar 2024 17:04
If Catalan secessionists lose the May election, which is likely, Pedro Sánchez might expect them to stop making awkward demands in exchange for parliamentary support, writes Mark Nayler
15 Mar 2024 17:00
David Andrews
For the right, the PSOE came to power on the wave of anger from the 11-M attacks and, as such, were an illegitimate government. For the left, the PP tried to maintain power using a terrorist attack as a way to galvanise its voters and sway the moderate centre
15 Mar 2024 16:56
Ana Barreales
There are still people who believe that the inequalities we, as women, suffer are no big deal and that we should put up with it and sit back for a hundred years or so and wait for things to change, writes Ana Barreales
15 Mar 2024 16:51
Farmers in Spain are not prepared to let their protests fade away in the public eye, something that is always a danger when someone repeats a complaint several times, however valid it might be
09 Mar 2024 13:40
Diego A. Nieto Marcó
In the 19th and 20th centuries, many women achieved great feats in worlds dominated by men - not just literature, but also science, travel and adventure
08 Mar 2024 16:34
Over the last year or so, it has started to seem as if the world of Spanish football might be almost as murky as the country's politics, writes Mark Naylor
08 Mar 2024 16:31
These days a lanyard is more often used to give an air of dubious self-importance to those who might otherwise spend their days going largely unnoticed, writes Peter Edgerton
08 Mar 2024 16:29
Do men still think that we women only work because we have nobody to look after us?, asks Jennie Rhodes
01 Mar 2024 16:50
The rich and famous don't deserve water any more than the rest of us, writes Jennie Rhodes, after the high-end property sector of Marbella, Estepona and Benahavís said it was worried about the effect the drought will have on sales and rentals if it is not resolved
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01 Mar 2024 16:43
01 Mar 2024 16:42
The EU Commission is concerned about potential misuse of the emergency Covid funds it gave to Spain
26 Feb 2024 09:34
Ignacio Lillo
Malaga is still far from having the West-East and Centre-North metro network that suits its size and dynamism, writes Ignacio Lillo
26 Feb 2024 09:31
I've tried to watch a professional game of basketball on the TV. It's difficult to escape the conclusion that, of the forty-eight minutes that a match lasts, only the last three are of much use, writes Peter Edgerton
23 Feb 2024 17:44
Spain's dilemma can be stated very simply: it can't please Morocco without riling Algeria, and vice versa
16 Feb 2024 14:27
Protesting farmers have drawn the EU's attention to the fact that its greenhouse emissions and carbon reduction targets just aren't working on the ground - literally
16 Feb 2024 14:22
That piece of plastic that has been sitting next to the supermarket points card that I've never once used for the last seven years? Gone? How? Why? Who? Where?
16 Feb 2024 14:19
Manuel Vilas
The fruit and vegetables grown in Spain are among the greatest triumphs of man on this earth, writes Manuel Vilas
09 Feb 2024 18:46
Ignacio Lillo
For it to really do some good, it would have to rain for at least a month, and that, unfortunately, is not on the horizon
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