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Monopoly shows the world how unfair life is for the poor 30 Jan 2013 | 02:45 pm
A RECENT series of BBC documentaries on poverty has really been shedding light on the unfairness of the world economy and the privileges those with money continue to enjoy. Capitalism today, more than...
Iberdrola’s Bolivian blow 28 Jan 2013 | 03:01 pm
TWO Spanish owned electricity companies have been nationalised by the Bolivian government. The Iberdrola subsidiaries were accused by Bolivian President Evo Morales of overcharging consumers in rural ...
The killer smog that made politicians clean city air up 28 Jan 2013 | 02:48 pm
THERE’S been a lot of reporting lately in the British media concerning the Great Smog of December 1952 which, as a twenty-two year old electrician, I experienced first-hand. Dense fogs had long been L...
Group stands by Spanish farmers 26 Jan 2013 | 03:07 pm
SPANISH supermarket chain Mercadona has come forward to dispel rumours that it was selling produce marked as Spanish but which had been sourced abroad. The group Boicotmercadona published an extensive...
An insane waste of dough 25 Jan 2013 | 02:42 pm
HAVE you ever wondered where your money goes? Well for some girls in the US, part of their savings has gone on helping to raise money for a woman to marry a cardboard cutout of Twilight movie star Ro...
Spanish take on world 22 Jan 2013 | 03:31 pm
SPANISH fashion group Inditex has taken €1.65 billion between February and October of 2012. This is 27 per cent more than for the same period in 2011, and is mainly thanks to improved sales in the Asi...
The rich are getting richer 22 Jan 2013 | 03:00 pm
SPAIN’S rich are now 8.4 per cent richer than a year ago. The 200 richest people in Spain have €145 billion between them according to El Mundo special feature ‘Spain’s Greatest Fortunes’. In just 12 m...
Hard work trying to buy local in a Chinese dominated world 22 Jan 2013 | 02:41 pm
IN our house over the last month we have set ourselves a challenge to try and buy Spanish, or European, if possible. Boy has it been hard. First off we needed to buy a fan heater for the bathroom. E...
Red lights flash as EU high command consider Britain 21 Jan 2013 | 11:17 pm
ONE can imagine the High Command of the EU huddled down as it meets in secret conclave to decide what’s to be done about that turbulent and troublesome United Kingdom. Red lights are flashing, ticker-...
The ghastly price of being a guest makes a wedding just too costly 21 Jan 2013 | 11:08 pm
WHEN it comes to a wedding I really want to say ‘I do’ but sometimes I just can’t. I mean I want to get dressed up in a beautiful dress. I want to walk up the aisle and take my place. I want to enj...