by hedgecoe | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.” –George Orwell, ‘Politics and the English Language’. He’s back. Spain’s former prime minister,...
by hedgecoe | Jul 22, 2023 | Blog
“In the Spaniard’s heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love of truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses I stumbled upon this quote recently as the tributes poured in for Cormac...
by hedgecoe | Sep 8, 2022 | Blog
Welcome, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to the big-time. The new leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP) has gone from the relative safety of his native Galicia to the lion’s den of national politics in Madrid. He took over the leadership of the PP in April, widely...
by hedgecoe | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog
Ireland’s Kinahan clan has recently been in the news after moves by authorities in the United States to close the net on them for alleged crimes linked to drug trafficking, a development which appears likely to affect their involvement in the boxing industry....
by hedgecoe | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog
On the morning of 11th of March 2004 I didn’t hear the bombs that blew apart three carriages of a commuter train in Madrid’s Atocha station, even though I was living nearby. I’d just had soundproof new windows installed in my flat and the noise of the blasts didn’t...