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The belief business in Barcelona
Spain: a gateway to Islamic acceptance?
Barcelona teens addiction to mobile phones
Girona's own: the music scene
Rugby League in Catalonia
"A hunger for antiquity:" Interview with artist Rohan Chalmers
"Los okupas:" Squatters in Vilafranca del Penedès
Australian Sunday Magazine article with our (8 year old) son Hugo about life in Spain
Some bad journalism on Spain
The science of successs in Barcelona
Slow life in Catalonia
The day that keeps giving
Portrait of an Asturian miner
What is "the crisis?"
Education in Catalonia
The way we are
On trust and the grape
A very personal reason
A few sparks
Generation precarious
Post-sentence
Remembering Pau Casals
Lockdown loaded
Black lives matter in Barcelona
Living too together?
House closed
In a small world
A bigger hassle
"50 years of Greenpeace" -- My interview with their spokesperson in Catalonia
So, how was your summer?
Worshipping the gods of commerce
Letter from a (political) cult refugee
Translation of “There is only one race: the human race.”
What British educators can learn from Spain (and other countries)
To screen or not to screen?
I don't think,...therefore I am
Legislating liberties
Poor doors
When government is sport
The best of times?
Why go the public way? (Part one)
Why go the public way? (Part two)
Easy on the eye
Hard to believe
Where have all the sad and angry songs gone?
Conversus interruptus
Reaching out across the centuries (Shakespeare)
Times in the balance
"Cohencentric" [On the life and work of Leonard Cohen]
Dangers of the sell-off
The Trump show
The words we use
The quiet one
Real red: Corbyn and Goytisolo
Getting Orwell wrong
Evolution's forgotten man
God-bloggerer
Why not Australia?
Churnalism
Work, money, machines
The great human paella
The giving game
Bread
Blurred lives
Women I admire
The moment Britain changed
Weightless
Captured
Eva's eye
Needled
Let there be profits
More than teaching
Death cafes
The Game
Contents page
The Economic Crisis: A Perfect Time to Rethink Parenting
Work Beats Life
The Remade Parent
Japan's untouchables
Globalization: "Freeters, combini and Uniqlo”
"A better job:" English language newspapers in Japan
The Wind-Water Sickness
The other driver of the bus
Que sera, seraren't
"Natsukashi"
Vicente Amigo – La Cuidad de las Ideas
Music of the Millennium – Various Artists
Sade – Lovers Rock
The Cellist of Sarajevo/ A Fly in the Ointment
The Girl on the Landing/Solar
SNUG/Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
Knots & Crosses/Juliet Naked
Every Light in the House Burnin'
The White Tiger
Never Let Me Go
Between Two Fires
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Blazing World
The Son
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
An Englishman in Madrid
The Good Luck of Right Now
1984
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
By Its Cover
Balancing Act
Poor But Sexy
This Boy's Life
Elizabeth Costello (by JM Coetzee)
God is an Englishman (Donald Horne)
The Inner Life of Animals
Living the reality
The Implausible Rewilding of the Pyrenees
Why Europe?
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
Steinbeck, Scuppers and trains
Extract from "Slow Travels in Unsung Spain"
Death Notices
Three Haiku (Written in Kyoto, Japan)
What Have We?
OTRA VIDA (Note To Self)
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"
"Fears increase, virus surges in Spain" -- My latest interview with ABC Radio (Sydney)
Video: Q & A on my book "The Remade Parent."
VIDEO: Why do the poor suffer more from Covid19 in Spain? Interview with ABC TV.
Banner photos: Cornelia Kraft
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