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The Bottom Line- opinion

Ignacio Lillo

The 'Pipitren'

A medium-distance train from Malaga to Seville, taking the old route, had to make two long stops so passengers could get off at intermediate stations to relieve themselves, since the train's toilets were out of order

  • 10 Oct 2025 10:24

    The Music Maker - opinion

    Peter Edgerton

    Peak performance

    We're all lightly crammed into the bright yellow cable car which takes passengers up to Montserrat. The official chap accompanying us rather worryingly opens the roof and fiddles about with a spanner before we set off

  • 03 Oct 2025 13:48

    The Bottom Line opinion

    Ignacio Lillo

    Is Malaga a victim of its own success?

    Columnist Ignacio Lillo claims that, despite the taxes being collected by central government, no short-term improvements on the Costa del Sol to make peoples' lives even marginally more bearable are on the cards

  • 03 Oct 2025 12:56

    The Euro Zone opinion

    Mark Nayler

    A glowing report

    All three of the major credit rating agencies - Standard and Poor's (S&P), Moody's and Fitch - have upped their scores for Spain recently, writes columnist Mark Nayler

  • 03 Oct 2025 12:52

    The Music Maker opinion

    Peter Edgerton

    Generalise an hour

    When you've lived in a foreign country for a good while, you can sometimes feel entitled to indulge in sweeping commentaries on the state of the nation and/or its people, writes columnist Peter Edgerton

  • 19 Sep 2025 11:43

    The Bottom Line - opinion

    Tony Bryant

    Stubbing out smoking

    Along with the possibility of losing regular clientele because of these new laws, this measure could also have a considerable knock-on effect on tourism

  • 19 Sep 2025 11:41

    The Music Maker - opinion

    Peter Edgerton

    Strangers in paradise

    Local village bars are great places to catch the zeitgeist on current affairs and the death of Robert Redford was hot off the press last night

  • 19 Sep 2025 11:27

    The Euro Zone - opinion

    Mark Nayler

    Fighting for Catalonia

    In order to fulfil his promise to pass a national budget next year (the first since 2022), Pedro Sánchez is going even further than usual to satisfy Catalan separatists

  • 15 Sep 2025 11:13

    Opinion

    Troy Nahumko

    Where words go to die

    When Spaniards hear the word “fosa", it evokes mass graves filled during and after the Civil War, where ideology and violence buried not only bodies but also memory

  • 12 Sep 2025 13:40

    Denise Bush

    Too little, too late

    No real action is being taken against preventable wildfires in Spain despite tragedies occuring every year, writes Denise Bush

  • 12 Sep 2025 13:15

    Peter Edgerton

    Stand and deliver

    Around here Spain's regular postal service can be - how might we put this? - unpredictable. If that wasn't enough, private delivery companies are considerably worse, writes columnist Peter Edgerton

  • 12 Sep 2025 12:22

    The Euro Zone - opinion

    Mark Nayler

    Role model?

    Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez's meeting with the UK's prime minister Keir Starmer at Downing Street last week prompted a lot of excited talk in the British press - and comparisons too, writes Mark Nayler

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