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5th May 2026
Yes, I began writing these articles fortnightly for the Gibraltar Chronicle just about four years ago. I took the title from the programme I first started with when I began as a part time presenter on Radio Gibraltar, in 1972. Much water has passed under the bridge since then. Also the theme or flair of...
4th May 2026
In recent weeks there have been a lot of complaints about the buses, traffic and the state of our roads. As a self-confessed public transport and map nerd I could talk about the subject ad nauseam. When the GSLP/Libs got elected in December 2011 they promised a free bus service for all and this was...
28th April 2026
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning said. While her famous poem described her intense love for her husband, Robert, my affection is dedicated to the sweet, delicious, delightful mango. While mango varieties found locally are green and crunchy, mangoes from South Asia tend to be smaller, more yellow...
27th April 2026
By Gemma Arias Vasquez There are some days in politics that stay with you, not because of what was said, but because of what they represent. Days when you look at what is unfolding and realise that something has happened which, for years, would have seemed improbable, then unlikely and then almost impossible. The 22nd...
26th April 2026
“He tells us there are no costs. He tells us it's just benefits, just so you know,” Dame Emily Thornberry tells Europe Minister Stephen Doughty, carrying a smile she has held for much of the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) hearing moments earlier with Chief Minister Fabian Picardo. Thornberry and Picardo have known each other for...
23rd April 2026
I know our weekly columns often lead to hearty conversations, surfacing as a trip down memory lane. At times Alice’s Table reminds us of a time in our history; tradition; characters we have lost sight of; identity. How do I know? Simply because I get stopped most weeks and given a little more information on...
22nd April 2026
The last time I was in the Palacio de Viana was in 2015, when the Partido Popular was in office and Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo was Spain’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mr Garcia Margallo, known for his hawkish stance on Gibraltar, was due to host a joint press conference with his then UK counterpart, Philip Hammond. I had travelled up to...
21st April 2026
So much is imminent, waiting on the horizon, even looming just around the corner for all of us to discover and so very much for us to do our best at getting right, hopefully just right. There are so many issues that are furthest from our minds as mere laypeople, but an incredible amount of...
20th April 2026
If you want your mind blown then go to Las Fallas festival in Valencia. Think of the loudest thing you have ever heard and then times it by ten, add forty-foot flames and fireworks pinging off in all directions. Morrissey couldn’t handle it and cancelled his 2026 Valencia concert after being left in a “catatonic...
16th April 2026
Time to venture back into the past in Alice’s Table. I was just flicking through the Directory and Guide of 1927, to see what else it could offer from our history, and life as it was. I realised we do not often look back on the monthly diary of events included in all the information....
14th April 2026
When we think of long-distance relationships, we are conditioned to think of a romantic relationship at best, or a friendship. Whether it’s a relationship that is in its first throes and blooming or that has run its course, there is not much notice given to relationships of another sort. Then there are relationships where a...
14th April 2026
By James Neish It’s nearly midnight in Islamabad and for a moment my concern shifts from the Islamabad Talks to how I’m going to charge my phone as it’s increasingly looking like a long night ahead. I lost my phone charger somewhere in the chaos of the media centre. Probably between a live broadcast and shifting bags at the Jinnah Convention Centre. I shouldn’t really have been upset. In...
12th April 2026
My heart sank as I waited in the dental clinic. Nothing to do with the great service I always get there. Just that the distraction-TV had shifted from Sky, usual on previous occasions, to GB News. It’s not my watch of choice, and I was early. It probably didn’t help that the Levanter had come...
9th April 2026
By Stuart Hedley In November 2016 the government issued a press release entitled “40,000 Vehicles in 6 Square Kilometres Does Not Go”. The press release mentioned that there were over 30,000 registered vehicles in Gibraltar and the message was quite clear, motor vehicle saturation on the Rock was fast approaching. The rest of the press...