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1. Breath of fresh air

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   Muriel Pilkington The Local Voice In his review of “The Myths of the Civil War” by controversial historian Pio Moa,  (right), who wrote the definitive book on fascism, says that what matters is not that ...

   Wednesday, 08 September 2010

2. New season, new subject

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   By Muriel Pilkington. The local voice Looking over my columns the other day, I realised I’ve written a lot about the Civil War, the Transition, Franco, King Juan Carlos and Zapatero, but little about ...

   Wednesday, 01 September 2010

3. Red herrings

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   By Muriel Pilkington   The local voice Although Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba returned from Morocco on Monday evening assuring everyone that the border crisis at Melilla was settled, the ...

   Wednesday, 25 August 2010

4. Election nightmare ahead

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   By   Muriel Pilkington  The local voice It looks as if elections of one kind or another are going to be dominating the headlines for months to come. The Socialists will be holding primaries in September ...

   Wednesday, 18 August 2010

5. August is a wicked month

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   By Muriel Pilkington  The local voice It's wicked because a lot of important little tidbits of news tend to get lost in a welter of inconsequential pieces from reporters whose minds are not really ...

   Wednesday, 11 August 2010

6. A farcical bullfighting ban

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   By Muriel Pilkington The local voice When it comes to blatant hypocrisy, the Catalans take the cake.The very day last week the Catalan regional parliament banned bullfighting on the grounds of cruelty, ...

   Tuesday, 03 August 2010

7. A strange obsession

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   By Muriel Pilkington The local Voice For the life of me I can’t understand the Foreign Minister’s obsession with Cuba, when everything in his professional career as a diplomat points entirely in ...

   Wednesday, 28 July 2010

8. The times they are a-changing

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   By Muriel Pilkington  The Local Voice There are growing signs that, politically speaking, the Spanish people are coming of age. For several months now, opinion polls show that more and more people see ...

   Wednesday, 21 July 2010

9. Catalan question won’t go away

   (Columnists/Political Update)

   By Muriel Pilkington.  The Local Voice The Catalans were on the march again last Saturday to protest the Constitutional Court’s rulings on the proposed reforms to the region’s Statute which regulates ...

   Wednesday, 14 July 2010

10. Political tsunami

    (Columnists/Political Update)

    By Muriel Pilkington, The local voice If current political polls prove right, Javier Arenas, the leader of Partido Popular-Andalucia, could turn out to be the worst political tsunami ever to hit the ...

    Wednesday, 07 July 2010

11. Per R Dewar Sabinillas

    (Magazine!/Letters)

    Edition 78 has the inimitable Muriel Pilkington stating, in as many words, that young people are more interested in cell phones, Ipods and computers than in  revolutions. She omits one other factor: today’s ...

    Wednesday, 30 June 2010

12. 23-F

    (Columnists/Political Update)

    By Muriel Pilkington, The Local Voice Following up the dire warning by European Commission president José Manuel Barroso that the economic crisis could mean the death of democracy in Spain, Portugal ...

    Wednesday, 30 June 2010

13. Feckless scaremongering

    (Columnists/Political Update)

    By Muriel Pilkington. The Local Voice When our proof reader handed me a printout of an article which appeared in the Mail Online on June 15th, I glanced at the heading – which said something about “democracy ...

    Wednesday, 23 June 2010

14. Full circle

    (Columnists/Political Update)

    By Muriel Pilkington, The Local Voice We’ve seen more of former Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez on TV these past few days than we have since the Socialists returned to power in 2004. Gonzalez, ...

    Wednesday, 16 June 2010

15. Another ETA ploy? - by Muriel Pilkington

    (Columnists/Political Update)

      Ever since the last truce declared by the Basque terrorist group ETA came to a shattering end with the car bomb that destroyed the T4 car park at Madrid's Barajas airport on December 30th, 2006, Sr ...

    Wednesday, 09 June 2010

16. It’s you, stupid! - by Muriel Pilkington

    (Columnists/Political Update)

    Sr Zapatero managed to get his cuts through Parliament last week, by one solitary vote, on a morning that can only be described as the most humiliating one in his political career. He had to sit and listen ...

    Thursday, 03 June 2010