Monthly Archives: October 2014
Looking forward to another Clasico
When people ask me-the son of a Scot father and a Spanish mother who was born in Madrid-why I am a cule, I tell them because I became one in the mid 1970’s thank to Johan Cruyff and have remained one ever since because I love watching beautiful football and I count many Catalans among my Spanish friends. I will be looking forward to this Saturday’s Clasico with the hope that the Barca that Luis Enrique is crafting will demonstrate that it has recovered some of the poetry in …
Ebola patient Teresa Romero: The good news?
There is no news like bad news is a phrase generations of journalistic colleagues have succumbed to as medias moguls pursue notional readership targets , politicians exploit misfortune to garner illusory voter loyalty, and others rush to make cheap points out of a sense of frustration with life in general. The news that Teresa Romero, the first person to contract Ebola, had tested negative to recent blood tests -and despite ongoing complications -, appeared to be cured of the disease has been given considerably less coverage than the global …
