The gig economy
Performers very often lack that intuitive understanding that, when it comes to a live performance, the audience is more important than they are
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Time to act
The effectiveness of this largely-untested forum is open to doubt, especially given its failure to ease tensions over the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
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Rebel without applause
In the olden days playing the renegade was a cinch - you got a tattoo, smoked a bit of weed and strutted around burbling on about the system and how everyone except you was a sheep
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Opinion
Digging deeper
The video of the Spanish cricket team during the playing of the national anthem, some of them with their hands on their hearts, has been watched by nearly six million people and, while many comments have been positive, the quantity of insults has meant that numerous media outlets have taken up the story
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The late, late show
Here's the funny thing - although, in the end, I was only about fifteen minutes late, the rest of the day was a complete write-off
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Father Fran and his accomplices
"It is outrageous that, while many priests and bishops (among them the bishop of Malaga) question the way of life of - for example - homosexual people, they allow their own pastors to happily ignore their own rules"
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Diversifying market risk in uncertainty
The main four central banks and government treasury departments are happy to keep printing an unlimited amount of fiat money, further driving up debt which can never be repaid
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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