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I thought it would be hell. Back in March, when we moved from England to Spain, we took our dogs but not our cat Misty. We were moving int...

The lightning bolt of redundancy has struck me again. Whoever said that lightning never strikes the same place twice? Me, it’s struck fou...

It’s facing a crisis that most truly brings out the character of a politician. For better in some cases. For far worse in others. Lincoln ...

Isn’t it great?  Today, on day 28 of his coup, we have official confirmation, from the highest court in the land, that Boris Johnson broke...

Imagine an eighteen-year old woman, in foster care since she was three, at last able to move into a half-way house, semi-independent but wit...

“Sin cita”: the magic words of Spanish bureaucracy.  They mean “without an appointment”. The words are music to the ears because, as I’v...

Nineteen days into the Boris coup. It struck me that this was the time for a tribute to that seminal experience that made BoJo the man he is...