Opinion

As Blue Monday 2025 looms, with its self-fulfilling prophecy of gloom and doom (basically the worst day of the year, as a perfect storm of financial, emotional and sociological factors

Throughout the 20th century, the US kept an eagle eye open for any opportunity to take advantage of Old World distrust and disputes Political, commercial and nuptial unions are often

I’m standing in front of a grey metal street door. Next to the intercom, the names of Portugal’s two Pritzker Prize winners, friends and colleagues for decades: Eduardo Souto de

For me, one of YouTube’s most love-hate Portugal-promoting influencers is ‘Dave in Portugal’, who recently posed the question: “Are Americans returning back to Europe?”, which quite honestly confused me but

Yup, you guessed it – this is my much-anticipated, annual New Year’s resolution column. I must admit that it helps to be optimistic when resolving to do better, and yours

For those of my readers who were wondering where I had disappeared to for the last couple of months, I have some wonderful news to share. Well, I was in

Having made it through the wildfire, I woke up feeling surprisingly optimistic. In the quiet of the night, I had decided to press on with my new life. What is

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell? Blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?

The once-abundant resource of potable water in north and central Portugal is under pressure from the combined exigencies of industrial and commercial activity – especially in the mining and “quality”