OPINION: How Ukraine resistance in face of Russian invasion recalls famous Spanish Civil War cry of ‘No pasaran!’
WATCHING Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsey shot at and wounded along with one of his team, while clearly working for the press in...
OPINION: How Spain is outpacing the UK when it comes to women in politics
To mark International Women's Day campaigner Sue Wilson, MBE, explores how UK is falling behind Spain when it comes to political representation.
Life in Spain and in the press leaves no regrets for Olive Press News Editor Dilip Kuner
OLIVE Press News Editor Dilip Kuner knew he’d ‘made it in journalism’ when he saw the flashing blue lights while trying to stand up...
Unfair expectations: Why my 2022 goal is to be gentler to myself
Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly, Princess Diana, Holly Willoughby, Adele, Kate Moss, Billie Eilish, Gigi Hadid- the roll-call of famous and beautiful women could go on...
OPINION: Isn’t it time Spain had a Royal visit from Her Majesty?
AS Queen Elizabeth II celebrates the Platinum Jubilee becoming the first monarch ever to mark 70 years on the throne, isn’t it about time...
OPINION: Why is Spain still failing when it comes to transparency?
THE Olive Press has recently reported on how dismal many of Spain’s town halls are when it comes to transparency.
And now comes the confirmation...
A Wasted Decade: How political corruption robbed Spain of success with renewable energies
Martin Tye of Mariposa Energia explores what's gone wrong with renewable energies in Spain.
The Christmas clear out – How Olive Press columnist Giles Brown spent the festive season
I HAVE always been keen on maintaining my Christmas traditions. Once again, I spent most of the Christmas and New Year period at the...
Slurry bad news: Across Spain, dubious industrial and agricultural methods have continued to pollute this beautiful nation
A LEGION of politicians piled fury on Alberto Garzon’s comments about the quality of Spanish meat because he criticised their two most important loves:...
REVIEW: One year since Brexit… still not ‘done’
Bremain in Spain campaigner Sue Wilson takes a look back at the first year since Brits were stripped of their EU citizenship and asks ‘Have you been mis-sold Brexit?’
Year of decision beckons for Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez
Is Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez enjoying a New Year's Day glass of cava as he mulls calling an early General Election in 2022?
The leader...
Don’t look back: A year of ‘thank heavens we live in Spain and not the UK’
Jo Chipchase, a Brit living in Spain, looks back on 2021, a year marked by the continued pandemic and the fallout from Brexit.
Covid cancelled Christmas: One reader’s experience of a rather different celebration in Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands
Faced with spending Christmas alone in a cold flat in Madrid after Covid scuppered a return to see family in Scotland, Sarah Crozier made the last minute decision to book a trip to Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands.
Despite the bright lights of Malaga, searching for that ‘Christmassy feeling’ in Spain seems harder than ever this year
IT’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The tell tale signs are all here- cosy coats, the kitsch jumpers, lots of lights, bows,...
Olive Press writer, Alex Trelinski, says 2026 Gay Games coming to Valencia is a deserved acknowledgement of life in...
CONGRATULATIONS to Valencia for becoming the hosts of the 2026 Gay Games, which were first staged in San Francisco back in 1982.
They were created...
Adventures in Brexitland: How a bid for Spanish nationality turned in a Kafka-esque nightmare
A bid for Spanish nationality leads to a Kafka-esque scenario involving inaccessible authorities and missing documents of an undefined nature, write Heather Galloway.
OPINION: Never Mind the Boris
BRITISH Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent break to Marbella - or more accurately Benahavis - seems to have divided the Press and public back...
MIJAS MATTERS: Nobody’s perfect
By Bill Anderson
I HAVE been off the Olive Press radar for a little while, and was reprimanded by the editor Jon Clarke when he...
OLD HACK IN THE SUN – Benny Davis with the ramblings of an 80-something ex-pat in Spain
AFTER drinking three cocktails in a seafront trendy bar, I nonchalantly threw a €50 note on the counter. ‘Sorry, nothing smaller,’ I declared.
The young...
OPINION: Fire and brimstone brings out Spain’s ‘Blitz Spirit’
IN Britain we call it the ‘Blitz Spirit’- that sense of community that brings people together in the face of great adversity, not just...
COLUMN: Winter is Coming!
AS I wrote recently in a news story, regional president Francina Armengol said that the Balearic Islands are recovering and will achieve a full...
COLUMN: September scribblings on Spain’s Costa del Sol
Giles Brown muses on the end of summer, and admits a lost in translation moment.
You can take a deep breath now. It’s September and...
ANALYSIS: Brexit has serious consequences for vulnerable Brits in Spain with untold numbers falling through the gaps
Sue Wilson of Bremain in Spain analyses the first report from the House of Lords European Affairs Committee which explores the issues surrounding the...
OPINION: Green list for Mallorca was not just about holidaymakers
IT was great news when the UK government put the Balearic Islands on the Green list, especially as I’d booked for my son to...
This Sporting Life
ENGLAND may have missed out in the Euro 2020 final, but performances of Gareth Southgate's team have been described as one of the greatest...
OPINION: Why Spain should bring back ‘botellon’ (and let young people meet in groups to drink outside)
Leah Pattem argues that the Spanish tradition of botellon, a practice that has become much maligned by authorities across Spain, is actually a really good thing.
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