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Sailing in Spain: All aboard and ahoy!

Posted by Amy Bell
On March 9, 2023

. By Amy Bell Imagine you’re with friends on a yacht in the Balearic Islands, feeling the warm Mediterranean breeze as you cruise along. Suddenly one of your crew, who perhaps has had too much to drink and isn’t a strong swimmer, loses their balance and falls over the side of the boat into […]

‘A writer must be a man of action now’

Posted by Amy Bell
On March 9, 2023

By Roger Golland A review of Tomorrow Perhaps the Future – Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War by Sarah Watling, published February 2023 by Jonathan Cape In the summer of 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil war, the outspoken heiress Nancy Cunard addressed a broadsheet appeal, grandly entitled The Question, to […]

Welcome to our ‘Amigo’: Camino’s Richard Bigg

Posted by Amy Bell
On March 9, 2023

By Anna Swinfield Introducing our new initiative, ‘Amigos & Amigas of the BritishSpanish Society’, celebrating Spanish food and drink in the UK First, for those who enjoy the best of Spanish food and wine, some news of an exciting gastronomic initiative the charity the BritishSpanish Society is launching in 2023: “Amigos and Amigas […]

The future of energy

Posted by Amy Bell
On November 5, 2022

In the month of the United National Cop 27 Climate Change conference in Egypt, Karima Verjee, an expert in green energy, explains why the need to move away from harmful fossil fuels is more pressing than ever. It’s impossible to miss headlines about climate change and the harm that carbon emissions are doing to our […]

King Carlos III, rey de Inglaterra y el futuro de su monarquía

Posted by Amy Bell
On November 5, 2022

El escritor y chairman de la BritishSpanish Society Jimmy Burns Marañón comparte una reflexión personal sobre el nuevo monarca después de la muerte de su ejemplar madre, Queen Elizabeth II. Es posible que el ahora Carlos III haya sido dramatizado para el consumo mediático en el pasado como un príncipe excéntrico, y descarriado. Un infiel […]

Football in the desert: prospects for Spain and England

Posted by Amy Bell
On November 5, 2022

Anglo-Spanish football writer Tomás Hill López-Menchero sets the scene for the upcoming World Cup, and looks at the prospects for Spain and England Twelve years after the World Cup was awarded to Qatar in controversial fashion, the tournament will kick off in the Gulf state when the host nation face Ecuador on November 20. Many […]

A Call From the Sahara

Posted by Julia Burns
On June 2, 2022

By Pepe Ivars Un aventuro y explorador Español radicado en el Reino Unido nos cuenta el desafío de entrenar en el desierto para la carrera más dura y exigente del mundo. Escribo este articulo ya desde la comodidad de mi oficina en Londres con un tiempo horrible cortesía de storm Corrie que […]

Spanish Football, up close and personal

Posted by Julia Burns
On June 2, 2022

By Simon Kuper A British journalist, who moved from Paris to Madrid last year, and has written a book about Barca, loves the game and enjoys following one of the great club rivalries Some days this winter, I’d be having lunch outside in the Madrid sunshine, happier than I can remember being […]

London welcomes back Flamenco’s best

Posted by Julia Burns
On June 2, 2022

By Graham Watts After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the London Flamenco Festival is back with a bang (21 June – 2 July), bringing several flamenco legends to headline the festival alongside some of the art form’s rising stars in a programme that emphatically focuses on flamenco’s familial legacies. In […]

A Monarch Admired and Respected by All

Posted by Julia Burns
On June 2, 2022

by Patrick Harverson A former member of the Royal Household reflects on the enduring example of duty, and sacrifice of Queen Elizabeth II, the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. It was in the summer of 2004, in my first year working for the Royal […]