A fiscal pilgrimage
Illuminating parallels between long-distance walking and political negotiation
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Linguistic utopia
A nation of nations, where different languages coexist, where children grow up speaking one at home and another at school, can only be advantageous, surely? No, not when politics comes into the equation
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Nil by mouth
Direct conversation is a skill that's being steadily tarnished by a tsunami of written messages and emojis plus those interminable monologues that people record for each other
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Phoney baloney
It's about time the tech companies stopped taking us for fools and came clean - there's nothing new they can do with a phone
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If only our votes counted
Imagine that in exchange for their vote Malaga MPs could demand that the government be fair to their constituency, just as the Catalan, Basque and Navarre representatives can
Ignacio Lillo |
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The Euro Zone
Memory loss
In a speech former prime minister José María Aznar accused Pedro Sánchez of "constitutional self-destruction" for considering pardons for the Catalan activists, apparently forgetting his own negotiations of 1996
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No consensus
Speaking to reporters outside a conference on Wednesday, the hold-over finance minister Nadia Calviño said she was "quite confident" that an agreement would be in place before everyone heads home for Christmas
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What the guy doesn’t see
After a few months of seat-giving-uppery, it slowly dawned on me that I was always the first - very often the only - one to offer. How selfish, I harrumphed to myself and resolved, next time, to stare out of the window and not budge, just see what happened
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Boys will be boys
There are people who are openly hostile to the feminist movement, however what also seems prevalent is the view that these feminists are a bunch of sourpuss party-poopers who can’t take a joke
David Andrews |
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It's a two-woman race
Both Spain's former economy minister Nadia Calviño and Denmark's ex-deputy prime minister Margrethe Vestager are in the race to be the next boss of the European Investment Bank (EIB)
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The untrained I
I did, at one point, make the mistake of asking for tips from one of those blokes who, inexplicably, feels no shame when sporting lycra shorts and drinking all manner of ghastly juices; after half-listening to a lengthy discourse about running technique, dietary requirements and staggered schedules, I thanked him profusely and headed home for a bacon sandwich and a lie down
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A much loved friend and colleague
Fran was not only a brilliant professional who had won awards, he was a vital part of the SUR family, loved by everyone
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Opinion
A sense of perspective
Vox, like the PP and indeed like almost all Conservative parties across Europe, opposes illegal immigration and seeks to place greater controls on legal migration flows. That's not a radical or hateful policy, it's a sensible one
Mark Nayler |
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Opinion
Scoring an equaliser
Finally, women can take part in international football and get the credit, attention and respect that they deserve
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Opinion
Card games
Losing my wallet would imply all kinds of cancellation telephone calls and card renewals most of which, I imagine, would involve those weird, disembodied recorded voices and increasingly exasperated cries of despair lovingly interspersed with Jumping Jack Flash arranged for piano and flute on an endless loop