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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...
7th April 2026
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...
6th April 2026
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...
31st March 2026
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...
29th March 2026
It was Denis Healy who, shortly after arriving at the House of Lords, referred to it as the “land of the living dead”. Others have called it a knacker’s yard but it actually has a real function. The upper house can spend more time analysing and improving legislation. Its focus on important issues is sometimes...
26th March 2026
Earlier this year Alice’s Table went on a tour of the Alameda Gardens - the Gibraltar Botanical Gardens which this year celebrates 2010 years of history. Speaking to its director Dr Keith Bensusan we looked back on its history, how the gardens have survived throughout all these years, the role it continues to play in...
25th March 2026
by Paul Balban Cycling Proficiency is seen in the UK as a practical life-skill program, widely taught within schools, within school time, teaching basic bike control and road awareness with an introduction to the Highway Code within Level 1 and then further on into Level 2 where children are then introduced to real road environments....
24th March 2026
We’ve seen the arrival in recent times of cafeteria chains opening up on the Rock, I assume all vying for top spot: Can they all survive healthily? We have a British one – Costa Coffee, originally owned by two Italian brothers, which keeps on growing their presence on the Rock, with another branch opening soon...