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When Valencians celebrate, they like to drink a lot of wine and make a lot of noise. In particular, they enjoy letting off fireworks – not n...

There’s something satisfying about going to a place for the first time and finding it exactly how you’d expect it to be. That’s how I felt...

Exciting times in Spain these days. We’re in the run up to a general election on Sunday 28 April.  Yes, they hold their elections on Sun...

It was wonderful having so much of our family with us this week. That’s all three boys, with both daughters-in-law and a granddaughter.  The...

One of the problems with conspiracy theories is that they require a belief in human ingenuity that is way beyond me. Not just ingenuity but ...

Faith-based politics can be a hell of a pain. As heretics frequently discovered at the hands of their fellow Christians, of a faintly differ...

It’s been fun to re-read Ben McIntyre’s biography of Kim Philby. These days, Philby’s name may not be as well-known as it was in my youth....