The Music Maker
Doing your homework
Peter Edgerton has had mixed results with online instructional videos, successfully managing to repair a washing machine door and a toilet cistern. But there have been some DIY disasters...
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The Euro Zone
A sound investment
Foreign investors have become so accustomed to governmental deadlocks and zombie administrations in Spain that they simply don't notice them anymore, writes Mark Nayler
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The Bottom Line
Is democracy dying?
British citizens are now able to register to vote in UK general and by-elections. Of course, this comes eight years too late for those who were unable to vote in the 2016 Brexit referendum
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The Bottom Line opinion
Clear runway to the future
The excellent planning by Aena for Malaga Airport should be news in itself. On the Costa del Sol, things normally only get done when the pressure becomes unbearable and they become obsolete shortly after their inauguration, requiring demands for expansion
Ignacio Lillo | -
The Euro Zone opinion
Please come home
The reason for the mass corporate exodus in the first place was political uncertainty caused by Catalan separatists, why would these businesses come back if there is still a possibility of more of the same in the near or medium-term future?
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The Music Maker
A pronounced accent
It's fascinating how people from different cultures find particular words in foreign languages difficult - no, impossible - to pronounce. This is mine... writes Peter Edgerton
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The Bigger Picture
An alternative to the ‘casino’ of stocks and commodities
Buying something for much less than it is worth and waiting patiently for it to be worth much more many years later, whilst receiving a passive income in the form of dividends, is an increasingly foreign concept to many
Jeremy Blatch | -
The Music Maker
I predict a diet
The mysteries of 2024: politics, film, sport and tourists in Calle Larios
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The Euro Zone
Rewriting history
Nadia Calviño, during her five-year stint as a lead player in the Sánchez Show, has been a relentlessly, in fact suspiciously, optimistic minister
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The Bottom Line
Anti-resolutions
Imagine making a resolution to be a worse person - for some the bad deeds will come naturally
Violeta Niebla | -
Opinion
2023 - high and dry
We were all taught in biology that every living thing needs water and light to survive. Here, on the Costa del Sol, we have plenty of light to go round, but water, essential for residents, tourists, migrants, gardens, industry, crops, livestock, wildlife, forests... is in short supply
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Opinion
A brief mystery of time
Normal people currently don't know if it's a Tuesday or a Friday - a state of affairs which will undoubtedly last until at least the second week of January when things return to something like normal. That's my excuse, anyway... writes Peter Edgerton
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Opinion
Outgoing presidency
As Spain's occupancy of the EU presidency and the year draw to a close, it's a good time to look at what the country has actually achieved in the role
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Opinion
Meeting Marathon
Details about the new EU migration pact apparently remain undecided, despite the insane amount of conferences at which it has been discussed
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Opinion
Present perfect
If we're being brutally honest, we'd probably have to admit that children are just a little bit spoiled these days, aren't they? Too many electronic gadgety gifts and not enough single walnuts and tangerines if you ask me