The Music Maker opinion
Silly sausage
Was it worth a half-hour round trip to retrieve a two euro thirty-four cent sausage? Columnist Peter Edgerton has been weighing up the pros and cons
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The Bottom Line opinion
Summer, children and inequality
Sahrawi children from the western Sahara have been arriving all week to spend the summer in Malaga. These little ones will leave their daily reality of life in refugee camps to swim in the sea for the first time in their lives, splash in the pool and eat ice cream, writes columnist Cristina Vallejo
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The Music Maker opinion
Putting in a good word
All the tricky qualities of water and the resulting mayhem it can cause were right there in the Spanish plumber's phrase, "water's got no bones". He was right, by the way, the roof's still leaking six months later, writes columnist Peter Edgerton
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The Euro Zone opinion
Money makes money
Only when the statistics for 2023 and this year are released will we know if any of Spain's wealthiest residents took capital out of the country as a result of the new measures, writes columnist Mark Nayler
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The Bottom Line opinion
Traffic violations are rife in Malaga
People with cars in the city do whatever the hell they want, and get away with it. They forget about the elderly residents with walking difficulties and parents with pushchairs, writes columnist Ignacio Lillo
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The Music Maker opinion
Hot town summer in the city
As a veteran of 29 hot Andalusian Julys, I'd like to offer some tips to help the uninitiated make it through to the first blessed breezes of late August, writes columnist Peter Edgerton
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The Euro Zone opinion
A tentative agreement
The EU and legal experts have expressed concerns that the failure of Spain's two main parties to secure consensus over the renewal of the CGPJ has undermined the independence of the country's judiciary
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The Bottom Line opinion
In danger of losing my Spanish?
I used to secretly enjoy the look of horror on Spanish doctors' / bankers' / vets' faces when they were suddenly faced with the prospect of having to deal with a foreigner, writes Jennie Rhodes
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The Music Maker opinion
Escape room
Columnist Peter Edgerton has been encouraged by friends to sign up to WhatsApp. To help him decide if he should, he's drawn up a list of the pros and cons...
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The Euro Zone - Opinion
Balancing act
Fiscal forecasts are revised so frequently throughout the year that they function more as real-time reports rather than informed divination
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The Euro Zone opinion
What's the big idea?
It might seem self-contradictory to describe a political party as both lacking a manifesto and being 'extreme right' but that is how many Spanish media outlets are choosing to describe the new party that emerged in Spain's EU elections last Sunday, writes columnist Mark Nayler
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The Music Maker opinion
Promotion commotion
Why did SUR columnist Peter Edgerton find himself spontaneously clapping down at the pub last week?
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The Bottom Line opinion
Plenty of reasons to fight for the extension of the Costa del Sol train line
Marbella is the only town of its size in Spain that has no railway service, writes SUR columnist Ignacio Lillo
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The Music Maker
Baby shower
An open-air concert I was due to give in Ciudad Jardín in June '23 - June! - was cancelled when it began to rain. With any luck things will go ahead without a hitch this year, writes columnist Peter Edgerton
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The Euro Zone opinion
Is anybody listening?
At a meeting of the European centre-left back in March, Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez, in full save-the-world mode, announced that in the upcoming EU elections "the very soul of Europe is at risk"
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