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Los estrellazos del Rock Hotel

I say Cloti dear, how many stars does the Rock Hotel have? Read more

Para volverse loca

Caramba, who would have imaginate que los curso de San Roque would have been held in our Gibraltar, and in our universiti and introduced por el Chief Minestra, como para volverse loca.

My dear Cloti you have all the reason, porque those cursos de verano , como si fueran de inviemo, are about espanish matters, and if el Instituto Cervante tenia crumbs, lo de San Roque tiene tail.  Read more

ALARM BELLS RINGING

Climate change is without doubt the hot topic of our times and something I have dedicated time to in previous articles. It has been said that in the last decades, we have done more damage when we have known what we were doing, than we did all these many years ago when we didn’t have a clue.  Read more

Ask the Chief Minestra if we are now independent...

Blimey con el Governator, se ha quedado mudo in the matters that concern the people of Gibraltar.

I don't know what's going on, dear Cloti,porque con lo del tanker, el UK le paso los poderes al Chief Minestra who thought he was a world leader.  

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Tanker issue way over our heads

There’s no way of whitewashing, downplaying or making the current security situation any less intimidating, then what I believe, is the current situation, where the Gibraltar public have often, not just now, been misled where ‘Security Threat Levels’ are concerned. Particularly in the last two weeks or since the Grace 1 Iranian tanker came into our lives. Read more

The EU is no more ethical than an Old Boys Network

The EU; an organisation which we had held in high regard and notions of upstanding Europeans, with the highest set of values and principles; much to our chagrin, we have found out that it’s no more ethical than an Old Boys Network! As the French politician Djordre Kuzmanic puts it “those who believe in Democracy should aim at tearing the EU down, not reforming it!”  Read more

A Tale of Two Enclaves

by KEN WESTMORELAND

Whenever people in the UK, racked with colonial guilt, complain about British sovereignty over Gibraltar, those better informed will point out that Spain has sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla, and that Morocco objects to that as well. Unfortunately, there seems to be a belief among Guardian and Independent readers that it’s only colonialism when the British do it.  Read more

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