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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
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Peter Edgerton
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
Mark Nayler
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
Troy Nahumko
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
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
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
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Mark Nayler
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
05 Sep 2025 12:13
Troy Nahumko
Stories once held up as proof of Canadian enlightenment now treated like contraband, hidden away from children "for their protection"
05 Sep 2025 12:08
Peter Edgerton
Such is the atmospheric majesty of the Icelandic landscape, a 2022 survey suggested that nearly half of the population believe in the country's indigenous elves, or Huldufolk (hidden folk) - supernatural beings that live all around in nature
05 Sep 2025 12:04
Mark Nayler
Is Sánchez right to say, as he did back in April, that the country is no longer the "European exception that left aside those who fall into a situation of vulnerability"?
29 Aug 2025 12:34
Mark Nayler
Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, is charged with having personal assistant Cristina Álvarez perform duties related to her job as a director at Madrid's Complutense university, as well as to her responsibilities as the prime minister's wife
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29 Aug 2025 12:30
Peter Edgerton
"Why didn't somebody tell me that years ago?" asks columnist Peter Edgerton about two nuggets of knowledge he has recently come across
29 Aug 2025 12:23
Violeta Niebla
Columnist Violeta Niebla recounts her brush with the law in Malaga
22 Aug 2025 11:01
Juan Bas
The humorist W.C. Fields considered that someone who detests animals and children cannot be entirely a bad person
22 Aug 2025 10:56
Peter Edgerton
The Cambridge English Dictionary has recently published it's list of newly added words and, as you might expect, a fair few have emerged through social media
22 Aug 2025 10:52
Mark Nayler
Vox has led the attack on Pedro Sánchez, identifying the main culprit as his government's 'climate fanaticism'
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