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The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga is currently hosting an exhibition of works by El Roto, the pseudonym of Spanish cartoonist Andrés Rabago, whose work appears regularly in the daily newspaper El País. Entitled ‘Apocalipsis: Cartoons from the Book
When I was in Sochi the year before last, I took a pleasure cruise on the Black Sea. I remember being fascinated by the city’s skyline, its cranes as striking and numerous against the snow-capped mountains as the dashes on
“One thing that I really like about the Spanish,” my friend John Hemingway wrote in a recent blog post, upon his return to Montreal from Madrid, “is that when they get fed up with something, usually having to do with
Long before Dennis Rodman’s most recent trip to North Korea, his status as an incorrigible twit was pretty much beyond doubt. His blow-up on CNN this week, followed by the news that he had sung ‘Happy Birthday’ to Kim Jong-un—lover
I have no phone. I have no internet connection. I am twenty-eight years old, a so-called digital native, and the wired world is my God-and/or-Jobs-given birth right. And yet like US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who yesterday said she
In August 2009, Vanity Fair dedicated a tongue-in-cheek photo gallery to Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, focusing on the dictator’s reliably outlandish sartorial choices. Entitled ‘Fashion Qaddafi-Style’, the piece was as notable for its pithy captions as it was for the selections
Rick Perry has a knack for making comments that cause large swathes of the electorate to wince. But it takes real talent to make comments that cause large swathes of another country’s to wince, too. That’s precisely what the Texas
A couple of years ago, I was heavily reprimanded by the managing editor of The Australian for using Twitter to comment on the stories I was covering. We had a fundamental disagreement about the value of the social networking service. I genuinely