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The colours of corruption Land, bread and peace of mind Sahara sands and other's lands Blue Black Friday Germanwings, depression and blame TTIPing us over the edge Refugees in a strange land Badly chosen words Lessons from Paris Albania's pain "The role of culture in Europe’s crisis." (My translation.) Democracy and other duds Tragedy in Turkey A ray of hope for Europeans Nothing temporary about work Brexit blues 'Jokerman' (On Boris Johnson and Brexit) The Zanzibar Zone Entranced In Morocco Steinbeck, Scuppers and trains Death Notices Three Haiku (Written in Kyoto, Japan) What Have We? OTRA VIDA (Note To Self) Stream of Consciousness: Zanzibar 22 July 1998 June Haiku Prose Poem 28 The Finding of History Happy The Only Way Is... Review of Nathan Shepherdson’s “Sweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror” Singular On Diagonal Avenue Becoming our father Outside Carnal mud Early doors day The colours of Asturias REPLANTEARSE EL HECHO DE SER PADRES - Del mi libro “El padre re-hecho.” ESPAÑA: ¿UN PARAÍSO PARA LOS PADRES? - Del mi libro “El padre re-hecho.” Brett Hetherington - Una Biografía Sant Juan: Una noche peligrosa Los colores de Asturias Mi Opinión del Referéndum de la Independencia de Cataluña Video: talking and listening on "Our Finest Hour" Interview on ExpatsBlog.com Book Reader Magazine interview "Fighting a battle that is far from lost" Interview with ABC Radio about proposals to change Spain's siesta and time zone Latest interview with ABC Radio in Australia Bullfighting in Spain: an interview with Australia's ABC Radio X-mas interview on ABC Radio Australia Latest interview for ABC Radio Yet another interview with Australian national radio The club that improves English (article in Catalan) Another interview for Australian radio Our (then) 8 year-old son Hugo interviewed for an Australian Sunday magazine An interview about Spain for Australian radio Video: interview with Nicole Millar Video: talking and listening on "Our Finest Hour" once more Video: Latest appearance on Catalan TV (English language) Interview with editor Berneta L Haynes Video: Latest appearance on a panel program Video: "TV talk: Trump, Catalan language and Leonard Cohen" Video: Four middle-aged men talk democracy and rights in Catalonia, Spain and Syria Podcast: Chatting with Jim Kent on Barcelona City FM radio Interview: "The most important of jobs" [Parenting] Video: I talk and listen about this week's national and international stories Barcelona terrorist attacks -- first interview with ABC Radio in Sydney Video: My latest interview with ABC TV (Australia) about the Barcelona terror attacks Q and A at Expatfocus.com VIDEO: Public reading of an excerpt from "Slow Travels in Unsung Spain"

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Not in MY aircraft!

The 'not so' benevolent society

Another cult bites the dust

Beyond Right and Left

Reportage Magazine

Some people just don’t want lives to be saved

"A hunger for antiquity:" Interview with artist Rohan Chalmers

Weasel words (Don Watson)

I never thought they would sink even lower

Australian Sunday Magazine article with our (8 year old) son Hugo about life in Spain

An interview about Spain for Australian radio

"What have the unions ever done for us?"

The Finding of History

Is this Australia in 2010?

Made in Catalonia

Another interview for Australian radio

"The Catalan Footprint in Australia"

Stolen children here, stolen children there

Another interview with Australian national radio

X-mas interview on ABC Radio Australia

"Made in Catalonia" film festival: Melbourne, Australia.

Latest interview with ABC Radio in Australia

Spain through the eyes of Robert Hughes

The [supposed] importance of bullfighting in Spain

What British educators can learn from Spain (and other countries)

Latest interview for ABC Radio

Latest interview for ABC Radio

Modern Spain and Australia: a lecture at the Uni of Barcelona

Podcast of lecture at the Uni of Barcelona on "Modern Spain and Australia"

I don't think,...therefore I am

The Catalans in Queensland

Season of free Australian films in Barcelona

When government is sport

"When government is sport" - My latest opinion column for Catalonia Today magazine

"The Australian Dream...or Nightmare:" A talk by poet Rod Usher at the University of Barcelona

Another season of Australian film in Barcelona

Blue Black Friday

"Blue Black Friday" - My latest opinion column for Catalonia Today

Hard to believe

Times in the balance

Video: talking and listening on "Our Finest Hour"

Our (then) 8 year-old son Hugo interviewed for an Australian Sunday magazine

Barcelona terrorist attacks -- first interview with ABC Radio in Sydney

Video: My latest interview with ABC TV (Australia) about the Barcelona terror attacks

Dangers of the sell-off

Why not Australia?

Churnalism

McMaths

Spanish group puts 10,000 books on Melbourne's streets

Those "big industries"

Work, money, machines

Letter from a (political) cult refugee

Elizabeth Costello (by JM Coetzee)

God is an Englishman (Donald Horne)

Spain once planned to invade Australia with an armada

Weightless