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Ovaries and rosaries

Last Saturday five women chained themselves to a side altar in a church in Barcelona and unfurled a banner that called for “no steps backwards with abortion”. As I heard the story on the car radio, instead of sympathising with the pro-abortion protest I found myself thinking, ‘what a ridiculous waste of time’. All they [...]

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Malaya, hold your breath for the anti-climax

Gallons of ink, reams of paper and infinite bytes of cyberspace have already been devoted to Operation Malaya: the intricate web of corruption at Marbella Town Hall, and there’s much more to come, but I wonder whether people will really end up with the feeling that justice has been done.
The recent deals between former councillors’ [...]

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Still a long way to go

The new SUR in English website has been launched – at long last – just a few weeks after Zapatero embarked on another four years in office.
It goes without saying that everyone involved in this project has the same enthusiasm as a new government minister, although the staff list is not quite as newsworthy as [...]

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