Mark Nayler

4 days ago | theepochtimes.com | Mark Nayler

ADCultural and sporting sanctions miss their target. 6/24/2025|Updated: 6/24/2025CommentaryBefore this year’s Eurovision song contest in Basel, Switzerland, 72 of the competition’s former participants signed an open letter calling for Israel to be banned from the 2025 edition.

1 week ago | surinenglish.com | Mark Nayler

For a prime minister primarily concerned about image, things don't get much worse. On Monday, the Socialist party's former organisational secretary, Santos Cerdán, resigned his seat in congress after it emerged that the Guardia Civil has found evidence that he accepted kickbacks for public contracts during the pandemic. Cerdán's resignation from the PSOE last week prompted his former ally, Pedro Sánchez, to apologise to the nation for having trusted him.

2 weeks ago | surinenglish.com | Mark Nayler

In satisfying all the involved parties (at least for now), this week's Gibraltar deal has achieved the almost-impossible. Gibraltar's prized sovereignty remains intact; the 15,000 people who cross the Spain-UK border every day, many of whom live in Andalucía but work on the Rock, will be able do so without identity checks; and the British military retains control of the airport, which includes an RAF base, a red line for the UK in the five-year negotiations that have just concluded.

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Mark Nayler

Calling someone a genius is not a simple statement of fact. It is to contribute to the creation of a myth around that person, only part of which will concern their actual abilities. If the person doesn’t look, sound or behave like a genius – if they’re boring, happy and considerate to their loved ones, for example – they’re far less likely to be regarded as one, no matter how brilliant their achievements.

3 weeks ago | surinenglish.com | Mark Nayler

Until a few days ago, hardly anyone had heard of Leire Díez. Born in the Basque town of Portugalete in 1975, Díez studied Social Sciences at the University of the Basque Country, specialising in journalism. Between 2011 and 2014, she served as the Socialist vice-president of Vega de Paz, a Cantabrian village with fewer than a thousand residents. Díez has also worked for Correos and Enusa, a public company in the nuclear sector, acting as the latter's communications boss between 2018 and 2021.