The State of Spain

Click on the arrow to listen to today’s episode of The State of Spain: Today’s Guest Commenting on the news from Spain today is Yolanda Solo (blog, Twitter, Facebook), who has lived in Huelva for 8 years, and works as a coach to individuals and small businesses wishing to improve their performance in life. Today’s Spain News Summary Listen to [...]

Click on the arrow to listen to today’s episode of The State of Spain: Today’s Guest Commenting on the news from Spain today is Graham Hunt (blog, Twitter, Facebook, iTunes), who has lived in Valencia for 22 years, works in the real-estate market and also blogs about expat issues and small business in Spain. Today’s [...]

Click the arrow to listen & subscribe in iTunes. A few days ago, the Telegraph’s Jeremy Warner published an article saying Spain was officially insolvent and that savers should get their money out of Spanish banks while they still could: Spain is chasing its tail down into deflationary oblivion. All this leads to the conclusion that a [...]

Click the arrow to listen & subscribe in iTunes. El País published a new Metroscopia survey this weekend showing all-time low levels of support for any of the main four political parties in national Spanish politics. El Mundo has also published a survey showing record low levels of support for both the main political parties and for [...]

Click the arrow to listen & subscribe in iTunes. It seems that every year I must write basically the same article. And every year, the little exercise becomes more depressing in terms of what it implies for Spain and for those of its inhabitants who wish to find some kind of job. In 2009, I [...]

Click the arrow to listen & subscribe in iTunes. We restarted our weekly debates about the future of Spain again last Thursday here in Murcia. It was a resounding success and some very interesting people turned up to think out loud. The initial proposal, my initial proposal, was that at least during Spain’s transition to democracy [...]

Edward Hugh and I chat about political corruption and secret Swiss bank accounts, Spanish 2012 GDP figures and  developments in Catalonia.–– Length: 25 min Language: English Download .MP3 file to listen offline

**Muy bien fiel lector, es hora de tomar otra decisión. El enfoque principal de este blog ya está claro. Ahora quiero saber si quieres que vuelva a pasar tiempo preparando las frases y palabras para que mejores tu inglés. Esta entrada es tu oportunidad para votar.** El tiempo es la clave aquí, fiel lector. El [...]