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The fine

Columnist Violeta Niebla recounts her brush with the law in Malaga

Violeta Niebla
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    Little monsters

    The humorist W.C. Fields considered that someone who detests animals and children cannot be entirely a bad person

    Juan Bas |
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    Cool aid

    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

    Peter Edgerton |
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    Blazing arguments

    Vox has led the attack on Pedro Sánchez, identifying the main culprit as his government's 'climate fanaticism'

    Mark Nayler |
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    Shipshape and bristling fashion

    Of all holiday choices, with the honourable and obvious exception of wild camping in the Cairngorms, taking a cruise would almost certainly be the one I'd least like to get involved in

    Peter Edgerton |
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    Lies, damned lies and statistics

    The figures produced in the article by 'Automovilistas Europeos Asociados' are far removed from the truth and are at best misconceived and at worst blatantly inaccurate

    Peter Sanderson |
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    Bending the truth?

    Anyone's CV is bound to feature at least one instance of exaggeration. Is this harmless tinkering with the truth, or lying? Where's the boundary between acceptable exaggeration and pure fabrication?

    Mark Nayler |
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    A danger to humanity

    We live under the histrionic and thoughtless whims of Donald Trump, a character democratically elevated to a material power that he understands and uses as if he were the lord and master of the planet that houses us, writes columnist Diego Carcedo

    Diego Carcedo |
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    You can't always get what you want...

    Columnist Peter Edgerton had to reconsider his options after the BBC recently radically reduced access to their radio programming for overseas listeners

    Peter Edgerton |
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    What's in it for me?

    Spanish politics is like a never-ending feria, the black money and kickbacks flowing like rebujito or Cartojal, writes colmnist Mark Nayler

    Mark Nayler |
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    The tic

    If I place my finger on the very fine skin of my upper eyelid, I can feel the little kick of a micro-baby that I have positioned foetally beneath my left eyebrow

    Violeta Niebla |
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    The art of the deal

    Certainty is not always preferable to uncertainty. That was one of the takeaways from the trade deal signed between the US and EU on Sunday

    Mark Nayler |
  • Uncertainty
    Work under way at Camp Nou football stadium. (Reuters)

    Uncertainty

    Disputes, shelved plans, lack of a stadium and no new signings as general chaos reigns at FC Barcelona

    Rob Palmer, commentator ESPN |
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    National expression

    The village fair I attended at the weekend was, by some distance, the most Spanish experience I've ever been party to, greatly enhanced by the fact that I was the only foreign person there and everyone present called me Pedro

    Peter Edgerton |