Gibraltar Chronicle Logo

Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

Recognition, Recognition, Recognition

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...

DS

Dominique Searle

Opinion & Analysis

Your Correspondent Come into my parley…

“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...

AM

Alice Mascarenhas

Opinion & Analysis

Alice's Table Unlocking Carrera’s Passage with local history enthusiast Gil Podesta

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...

BR

Brian Reyes

Opinion & Analysis

In Madrid, signs that Gibraltar and Spain are moving on from the past 

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...

RC

Richard Cartwright

Opinion & Analysis

Richards's Rendezvous What’s in the offing?

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...

RC

Rebecca Calderon

Opinion & Analysis

The Cauldron Las Fallas of Valencia

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...

AM

Alice Mascarenhas

Opinion & Analysis

The oddities, realities, and general dos and don’ts of the past

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....

PG

Priya Gulraj

Opinion & Analysis

Chai With Priya Goodbye from afar

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...

GC

Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

Low Battery, high stakes: Reporting the Islamabad talks 

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...

DS

Dominique Searle

Opinion & Analysis

The Correspondent Two-thirty at the dentist’s…

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...

GC

Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

Putting people over vehicles

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...

RC

Richard Cartwright

Opinion & Analysis

Richard’s Rendezvous Calendar dates, milestones and significant events

Many appear as anniversaries, year in, year out and they come by again and again so quickly: just look, it seems like Christmas was seven or eight weeks ago when in reality three months have gone by and we’re now even passed the other very important religious event – Easter! Incidentally, did you know that...

RC

Rebecca Calderon

Opinion & Analysis

The Cauldron: Why demolish when you can refurbish?

Earlier this year I visited my old secondary school ‘Warblington’ in Hampshire. Built in 1956 and often ridiculed for its ugliness, I was surprised to learn the property had been Grade II listed in 2019 by Historic England because of architectural and historic interest. My brother and I were given a tour by the current...

PG

Priya Gulraj

Opinion & Analysis

Chai With Priya: A very likely not-so-distant future

On Sunday afternoon I was sat on my sofa, soaking in the last hours of the spring sunshine, talking about a dystopian novel where climate change and inequity wreaked havoc. The book in question was Megha Majumdar’s latest novel, A Guardian and a Thief. This is a dystopian novel based in India which follows the...