If there is anything good about a hangover, it’s that you can be pretty sure it will pass with time. Or as Dean Martin allegedly put it, “I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. Because they know that, when they wake up, that’s the best...

There is no blog tonight because I have today enjoyed one of those Spanish lunches that start at 1.30 and finish at 9.30. If you think this is reprehensible, you should have seen the first draft of this. And many subsequent drafts. Thank God, I...

Now, be honest – Have you ever heard of Herman Van Rompuy? Probably not but it appears he’s first in line for the Presidency of the EU. Having gained valuable experience as Prime Minister of that eminently successful union, Belgium. The...

Over the years, I’ve recorded my occasional feelings of wonder at the relaxed Spanish attitude to risk. But I’ve also said numerous times that Spain’s is a far more sane society than that of modern Britain. In the latter, one increasingly feels...

Oh, dear. Edward Hugh is now more pessimistic than ever. He feels there’s a “spectre stalking the corridors of Europe's most prestigious institutions” and that it is the Spanish economy, which “stays on a flat line while Europe's other...