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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: November 2010

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Monday, November 29, 2010. IS THE FRENTE POLISARIO A TARGET FOR AL QAEDA? I am grateful to my esteemed colleague Francisco Rubiales for pointing me to reports that the Frente Polisario in the Western Sahara may have been targeted by Al Qaeda. Currently Al Qaeda is not a major force in the Maghreb. Its activities are confined to areas of Mali and Mauritania where it has staged a number of kidnappings – perhaps because it...Francis...

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: TIME RUNNING OUT FOR PSOE

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Thursday, July 7, 2011. TIME RUNNING OUT FOR PSOE. If an opinion poll published by El País on Sunday is correct then PSOE have a mountain to climb to win the general election whoever leads the party. The soundings indicate the Partido Popular have an over 14 per cent lead as Spaniards react with anger to the high levels of unemployment and the financial crisis. However the Spain of 2012 will be very different from that in 2008&#4...

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: September 2010

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Thursday, September 30, 2010. OCTOBER 5 – DATE WITH DESTINY. On September 28 the Tangier court that convicted the “Tangier Two”, Jorge Cano and Juan José Ruiz, met to consider the appeal against their drug trafficking conviction. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. SPAIN’S LARGEST CORRUPTION TRIAL IS UNDERWAY. The 33 million euros is said to have come in payments to Roca from property developers over that four year period. Many of t...

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: March 2011

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Thursday, March 31, 2011. IN THE MEANTIME WE’LL BOMB LIBYA. There can be few people in the world who would embrace Gaddafi (well apart from the US, British, Spanish, Italian and other leading politicians plus royalty who did so in recent years) but I feel uneasy about the current military action in Libya. So why was the British Government so keen to intervene? To cover up for the botched attempts to evacuate its nationals? Either...

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: A SWEET CLIMAX

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Sunday, June 26, 2011. Each Saturday when I buy La Opinión de Málaga I receive a free copy of Interviú. It is an interesting magazine combining hard core porn with hard nosed investigative reporting. There is a section entitled “Nuevo Periodismo” which gives some of the more bizarre headlines of recent weeks. One in the latest edition from La Flecha reads: “Una mujer tiene orgasmos cada vez que come dulces.”. And I will post it d...

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: February 2011

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. ESCAPE TO GIBRALTAR and JIMENA MEMORIES. February 23 1981 marked a significant day in Spanish history. It was the day the fledgling democracy of Spain was almost brought to its knees by the attempted coup in which the Guardia Civil Lieutenant Coronel Antonio Tejero marched in to the Spanish parliament, confronted the MPs and fired shots in the chamber. Footnote: Antonio Tejero is still alive. He ...

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: June 2011

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Thursday, June 30, 2011. SPEAKING UP FOR CHARLES. Although I was a monarchist at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation – I was easily bought by thoughts of a street party – I am now a Republican. OK I am a benign republican who is happy to see the Queen see out her days on the throne. Then I would bung the remaining members of the Royal Family a million quid each and leave them to their own devices. So given that scenario you ...

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: October 2010

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Monday, October 25, 2010. TRINIDAD JIMÉNEZ RIDICULED FOR NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH. Just days into the job and Trinidad Jiménez, Spain’s new foreign minister, is coming under flack in the Spanish press because she apparently doesn’t speak English. Poor Trinidad - there have even been those in Spain who have questioned whether she could speak Castilian having tagged her as pure Andaluz in accent and phraseology. It has been suggested b...

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TILTING AT WINDMILLS: SPEAKING UP FOR CHARLES

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A British journalist's view of news in Spain, Gibraltar, the UK and beyond. Thursday, June 30, 2011. SPEAKING UP FOR CHARLES. Although I was a monarchist at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation – I was easily bought by thoughts of a street party – I am now a Republican. OK I am a benign republican who is happy to see the Queen see out her days on the throne. Then I would bung the remaining members of the Royal Family a million quid each and leave them to their own devices. So given that scenario you ...