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Getting a grip: Accused of faking COVID is a low blow – even for Marbella!

It was the last caller that did it. I was into the final three minutes of ‘Viewpoint’, the live radio show that I host every Tuesday that discusses the ‘issues of the

14 Mar, 2021 @ 15:39

The Zen of The Rona: Dealing with the virus involves lots of navel gazing

AS you may or may not be aware, I spent most of last month recovering from what my more streetwise friends refer to as ‘The Rona’. (And no, I still can’t get

14 Feb, 2021 @ 17:27

Just wish it was over – a miserable start to 2021 in Spain

WHEN I flippantly mentioned in my last column that I didn’t see many people writing that 2021 would be their year, I didn’t actually think that I would be wishing for the

7 Feb, 2021 @ 11:56

It’s a New Dawn, it’s a New Day…

NORMALLY when we head into a New Year, my Social Media feeds are full of posts claiming ‘This will be my year’!, ‘Moving on up’! and many more of the same, all

17 Jan, 2021 @ 14:22

How much more does Marbella have to take?

A TEENAGER was fatally stabbed on a street that I used to live near. It’s a busy road that divides a popular commercial centre and urbanisation. There’s a ‘neighbours’ association’ bar at

20 Nov, 2020 @ 14:48

Salute to Sir Sean: Connery was central figure to expats on the Costa del Sol

EVERYONE lucky enough to live in Marbella between the 60s and 80s has a Sean Connery story. The Bond star lived in his beachside villa Casa Malibu between 1975 and the mid

15 Nov, 2020 @ 15:00

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Lead·National News

‘Making do with tech as old as me’ – Giles takes a tip from the Wombles for his off-grid life in Spain

IF the last couple months of what we can euphemistically refer to as ‘This, that and the other’ have taught me one thing, it is that I am definitely living in the

11 Oct, 2020 @ 12:46

Giles Brown realised he wasn’t the only one heading for the beach post-lockdown as Spain’s Costa del Sol gets BUSY again

HOW were things for you in the first weeks of the ‘new normal’? As I mentioned before, I was lucky enough during lockdown to have permission to travel to the radio station

4 Jul, 2020 @ 12:00

As confinement comes to an end, I’ll miss the jokers in Spain’s COVID-19 comedy of errors, writes Giles Brown

BY the time you read this, Spain will have bravely stepped into the ‘New Normal’. To be honest, I have had enough trouble adjusting to the ‘Old Normal’ since the mid-80s, but

20 Jun, 2020 @ 13:50

George Floyd’s death should make us rethink how we treat each other, writes Giles Brown

I DIDN’T watch the video. I didn’t need to. The image of George Floyd being ‘restrained’ was enough. Social media has fulfilled Marshal McLuhan’s prophecy of a Global Village and in recent

7 Jun, 2020 @ 12:00

Glitz, glamour and a seething Ronnie Corbett – Giles Brown chronicles his misspent youth as Marbella’s Puerto Banus turns 50

YOU can easily dismiss ‘The Port’ as full of the wannabes, the It girls, and the has-beens as well as the brash, blinged, blasted and frequently botoxed, but it has been an

30 May, 2020 @ 14:00

COVID-19: The wrong camera angle on your Zoom call could leave you looking like Jabba the Hutt and don’t forget the bookcase behind you, warns Giles Brown

THERE seem to be several ways of dealing with the current coronavirus crisis. One option – sadly is no longer open to me – is to treat the entire situation as an

17 May, 2020 @ 16:00

The Costa del Sol’s car-free roads are giving Giles Brown travel nightmares during Spain’s COVID-19 lockdown

BEING what is deemed an ‘essential worker’ – which as a freelance journalist and broadcaster is a first – I am lucky enough to be allowed to travel to the studio. I’ve

26 Apr, 2020 @ 11:00

Giles Brown has had enough of the virtual breathing workshops and online psychobabble of Spain’s COVID-19 lockdown

What could be more inspiring than the sight of a 50-something male in a hooded dressing gown muttering obscure rock lyrics to himself

18 Apr, 2020 @ 11:00

How Spain’s coronavirus is both a geek heaven and a harsh reality writes Giles Brown

And thus it came to pass that the Geek did, indeed, inherit the Earth

29 Mar, 2020 @ 09:00

Spain’s Coronavirus outbreak has Giles Brown humming along to a noughties boy band from inside his loo roll lair

Living in splendid isolation in a cottage by the lake, with the nearest neighbour about half a mile away, a generator for power and a large water deposit tank, I was all

21 Mar, 2020 @ 14:00

Columnists·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear

Fake news, cocaine and 70s rock – the Costa del Sol really has gone coronavirus crazy, writes Giles Brown

The fact that coronavirus had finally reached Marbella was worthy of a report on my news blog

7 Mar, 2020 @ 12:30

As Spain shut down for the festive period, the Hacienda still had a last-minute gift for Giles Brown

The noble men and women of Hacienda and Social Security who, in a pincer movement of ruthless efficiency and deadly timing that would have made the Duke of Wellington proud, ransacked my

11 Jan, 2020 @ 10:30

The Tories’ victory has Remainer in Spain Giles Brown battling trolls and stockpiling for the Brexit apocalypse

Spanish citizenship might be tricky and I’m loathe to get a green card by an arranged marriage in Lepe

26 Dec, 2019 @ 09:02

After two more gangland killings, Giles Brown calls for end to violence in Marbella and on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Marbella needs to take a long, hard look at the problem before it spirals any further out of control

8 Dec, 2019 @ 11:59

Crime & Law·Giles Brown: Loud and Clear·Malaga

A trip to the hospital in Spain has turned Giles Brown into a bookworm with six pack abs and restored his faith in humanity

Spraining an ankle is not a training programme that I would recommend, but there is an upside!

10 Nov, 2019 @ 12:15