Al mayor le preocupa el humo de los cars crossing the frontier, pero no los millions of panaeras that go their way from our Gibraltar
Oh dear, el nombre Franco seems to haunt us, la que se ha armao by what the mayor has said about Gibraltar, es para mearse. Read more
Come on it's time to cross the line!
A friend sent me a link of a short documentary film of the Miss World 1970 by Pathe News, where I could be seen with some of the contestants visiting the sites in London. I did not know of its existence and it pleased me greatly to see it. Shortly after photos taken from said site appeared in a website that shows old photos of Gibraltar, which apparently created a lot of interest because Gibraltarians love to see anything about Gibraltar that relates to our past. Read more
Airport Runway: Getting lax with our security
Recently, we were crossing the runway on our way back from shopping at a local supermarket, when we saw a couple of young Spanish men walking nonchalantly further and further into the airfield, away from the paths demarcated for both pedestrians and bicycles. Read more
Is anyone listening?
There will be times when you may have wondered if anyone out there is listening; if anyone is taking things in; because even when in the company of others, this appears not to be the case. How many times have you found yourself in someone's company, say having coffee, and when you are about to respond to the question "so tell me, how have you been?" someone else approaches the table and addresses the person sat opposite you. Read more
We must stop dragging our out of date baggage behind us
Now that the foreign affairs committee of the Moroccan parliament have passed two laws to "re-actualize" the limits of its territorial waters; aimed to assert its sovereignty over its entire maritime coasts; perhaps its time for us to once again urge the UK Government to do likewise. Read more
It's for Great Britain to find a solution
Not wishing to dwell too much on the subject, nevertheless the issue needs our attention because it causes unrest in our midst, and like a cancer, can spread through a country where at present there is great dissatisfaction with its lot. I speak of the party Vox; a party whose leaders are concerned with flattering the prejudices of the mob, and their own. Some time back, the Spanish people were more or less content with their circumstances, because they were resigned to a restricted and artificial range of emotions, taking things as they found them. Read more
It is time for a showdown
Sometimes it's hard to believe that the EU stands for what it purports to do; an association of sovereign states designed to further their shared aims. I doubt that there are many shared aims; it's more a case of each member state furthering their own agendas and yes, getting the backing of the EU to rubber stamp their goals. Read more
The end of an Era, or perhaps not
After what seems a decade shaped by the introduction into our lives of a nightmare called Brexit, and the overwhelming desire by the peoples of the world; not so much its governments; to introduce new ways to try and halt climate change; it feels like the end of an era to me. Yet it isn't. The question is whether this end of an era, will usher in the possibility of completing something satisfactorily, either on the Brexit front, or the convincement of certain governments to have the political will to change their ways and if not halt, at least delay climate change for now. Immediately after the UK election results, the mood in the EU towards Britain was no longer "you are out in the cold," but, "what we now look for is close cooperation." I once hard a local politician say that women talked too much; I believe it's the politicians themselves who are over verbose, when they are made to feel uncomfortable. Read more
Who has actually benefitted from all this chaos?
Gibraltar's Chief minister said some time back " I think we've agreed enough of the substance of the practical arrangements between us, the UK, the EU and Spain, that we might seek to put in place some sort of safety net." I believe the Government has by now achieved this, and no doubt our community is much relieved to hear it. We all need to feel secure, especially now with what has been going down. Read more
Why the only human group left on the planet are humans
Recently there have been new studies published where it has been reported that complex disease transmission patterns could explain how modern humans were able to wipe out Neanderthals in Europe and Asia, in just a few thousand years; with research coming to the conclusion of why possibly humans, are the only human group left on the planet. One doesn't have to look back as far as the ice age, to realize that said phenomenon also caused the devastation of entire tribes of people during the New World age; to the point of near extinction. Read more