Suddenly, Spain's government has decided that its priority for the coming months is what it describes as ' democratic regeneration ...

Son of his father, Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia has successfully come through a rigorous selection proc...

This used to be a nice area, before they moved in. There they are, with their funny food and that way of talking they have. Don't ma...

Spain is in a dire economic situation. If you look at the economic data and especially at the unemployment figures you would think such a c...

La Razón this morning: ABC 25th May 2012: Yes son, this time it will be different. As I write these words crack teams of Catalan...

The funeral service has been held today for the victims of last week's awful train crash in Santiago. The judicial investigation into w...

Another hilarious sequel with all your favourite characters. Mariano, as usual, has nothing to say. Laugh, we wish we could !

Puerto Natales, one of the places where we stayed on our trip to Chile last winter, is not a big town. In the Patagonian summer it does mod...

Although I usually blog about Spanish issues here, there are always exceptional cases. I was not even planning to write anything about the ...

I said it last year, didn't I? Somewhere a bit further down the page . In the comments to what I now realise was a hopeless and patheti...

It's that time again, the South of Watford winter break. Well deserved, as always. Defying Mayan or any other prophets of doom I'm ...

It's a South of Watford world exclusive. Spanish Prime Minister and well known man of action Mariano Rajoy spoke to this blog with unpr...

A very strange thing happened last week in Spain. An elected representative of the Partido Popular resigned after his involvement in murky ...

With all the fuss around the Catalan elections, the first anniversary of Mariano Rajoy's election slipped by almost unnoticed. Of cours...

It's been a while since I've had anything in this blog that I would consider to be a rant. I suppose some may not share that opinio...

It didn't work. That's the simple and clear verdict of yesterday's elections for Artur Mas and Convergència i Unió (CiU). The g...

So is this it, crunch day for Cataluña as it decides its future relationship with Spain? Well no, not really. We are treated to yet another...

The latter stages of the campaign for tomorrow's Catalan regional elections haven't just been about the cynical attempts by Artur M...

5778100 and still rising. 1737900 households where nobody is working. Unemployment in Spain is above 25% for the first time ever and it...

I did toy with the idea of continuing wordless blogging and just post the results widget from El País. The results will start coming in aft...

It's now over 3 weeks since I last blogged on the subject, but the crisis over the bailout of Bankia rages on. As each week passes w...

The news yesterday that Bankia is going to be bailed out by the Spanish government has put the stability of the Spanish banking system back...