15.3.2010Handshakes All Round: Masons in Majorca Freemasonry is alive and well in Spain and was meeting in Palma at the weekend. Full article
14.3.2010Battlefield: Hotels go on the all-inclusive offensive The Balearics hotels are being cajoled into offering more and more all-inclusive. And the hotels are also challenging bars and restaurants. Full article
10.3.2010The Director's Cut: Film festival and Nadal ads The Majorca International Film Festival is in doubt, thanks to the tourism ministry, which is also dragging its heels with the Rafael Nadal promotional adverts. Full article
9.3.2010By The Left: PSM and nationalism The PSM Majorcan socialist party is all for the environment, all for Catalan and apparently for all. But what does its nationalism mean? Full article
5.3.2010We Can't Go On This Way: Sustainable tourism in Majorca Any idea who Ivan Murray is? Probably not. So I shall tell you. His grandmother was Canadian of Scottish origin, he lives in Port Soller and is an academic at the university in Palma, whose specialism is the sustainability of tourism in the Balearics. What he has to say is important. Full article
2.3.2010The Scream: The anniversary of corruption in Majorca It was another holiday yesterday. For once, not a religious occasion, but a political one. Balearics Day, the twenty-seventh anniversary of the introduction of autonomous, regional government in the islands. How apt that a political celebration should be marked by the worst cases of political corruption that Majorca has ever known - which is saying something. Full article
28.2.2010Thus Spake Zarathustra - The downfall of Mother Munar Maria Antònia Munar, matriarch of the Unió Mallorquina party and of Majorcan politics, has finally quit her post as speaker of the Balearics parliament. Full article
25.2.2010FAC-You: Spain's worst companies Consumers have the chance to vote as to the worst Spanish companies - two airlines and three mobile operators. Full article
23.2.2010Ryan's Laughter - "El Mundo" And Ryanair Ryanair is the target for another attack, this time by the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo". But is this attack, are other attacks justified? Full article
17.2.2010Political Balls - Carlos Delgado and the politics of language Carlos Delgado. Get used to the name. You might be hearing quite a bit more of him. Full article