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It might all get very sticky

Having seen recently on the news, the disdain and lack of respect with which the EU leaders treated the Prime Minister Theresa May at the G Summit, their behaviour towards us in the recent past does not surprise me anymore. Their loutish manner at the photo call was a disgrace; so much for their European standing. It was most definitely a brush off in the worst possible taste that I have witnessed in years. It denoted an air of bullishness come brusqueness, born out of a deep dislike for a woman who, after all, tried so hard to appease them.  Read more

The British Government must address our concerns

Ours is a story that is lasting far too long. To take a Shakespearian phrase from Hamlet; it has become “weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. I’m referring to of course, that which is entwined with Spain’s absurd and outdated demands for sovereignty. The harsh reality is that if we don’t this time around, capture the UK Government’s complete attention, I feel we are going to reach a point where we never will.  Read more

COMPANY STATEMENT RESPONDING TO GSD STATEMENT REGARDING STREET CLEANING AND CONTRACT:

We are aware that Politics will be Politics and that this year will be an election year. It is well known that politicians will raise their own view on public matters. However we take exception to references made to Britannia by the GSD.  Read more

Take cover, el sporting world is coming to our Gibraltar

Blimey, con el sporting ministron de Linares, he thinks que sportsmen from the whole wide world will be coming to Gibraltar to make use of our new equipment, as if the world did not have what we are going to have now.  Read more

Hong Kong and Gibraltar similarities...

What is happening in Hong Kong at present is very telling is it not? Ceded to Britain by China in 1842; this once small “strategic” territory was under British rule. Then, after 156 years it reverted to Chinese sovereignty on the first of July 1997. This action taken, I have to add, was not at all popular with its citizens who never wished to be part of Mainland China and tried their best to fight against it.  Read more

No closure and no change

“The new world of Spain”; “The new Spaniards”; how many articles in magazines or journals have we come across with similar titles? All carrying stories which are appealing and interesting, because Spain, is after all, one of the oldest nation-states in Europe whose history is enveloped in countless conquests; whose deep rooted traditions have been the subject of passionate relates; whose bloody Spanish Civil War ignited such interest, that for the first time in the history of the world, its propaganda played a greater part than even the fight itself.  Read more

It's like selling the Crown Jewels

Dear Sir,

I was listening to the Budget on T.V. that the GSLP and Liberal are going to sell the other 50% of some of the new buildings that they have built to a private equity company. When the young Gibraltarians that bought their first properties, they bought thinking that the other half was going to be owned by the Gibraltar Government. But now appears that the Government will be selling the other 50% off, this can’t be right. How can a Government sell their assets which are really supposed to be looked after and cherished by the Government?  Read more

Commiserations, Your Excellency

Dear Sir,

On Friday 14th June GBC Newswatch at 19.30 hrs, repeated of course at 23.00 hrs, during their coverage of Her Majesty’s traditional Birthday parade at Casemates ‘demoted’ His Excellency LT GENERAL Edward Davis CB CBE to LIEUTENANT Edward Davis.  Read more