From Catalonia to Caledonia

Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I have replaced the Video of the Month with a link to the “Keep Johnnie Walker in Kilmar...

A few days ago, I wrote how foreign correspondents write newspaper articles devoid of any insight and sometimes accuracy when reporting on p...

These days I hardly write about Catalan politics. It is far too depressing and it only serves to highlight the absolute mediocrity of Catala...

Everybody seems to have been taken by surprise with regards to the vitriol directed at the proposed health-care plan by the new US adminis...

Sometimes I wonder what newspaper foreign correspondents get up to that their reporting is so unreliable and often just plain wrong. Many of...

While I was in Barcelona visiting friends and family, one of my friends asked me (as if I had a clue about anything…) what was the likely ou...

It is quite extraordinary what is happening in the UK in the last few months. A few weeks ago, we woke up to discover that our elected repre...

This weekend I am going to Barcelona for a stag do. It is nice to see family and friends. But where is home? Can we have more than one home?...