Spanish state pays people to live in Mallorca

Did you know the Spanish state essentially pays people to live in Mallorca? Crazy, right? Most people are aware that Spain’s territory is made up of more than just the Iberian Peninsula. The country includes the Balearic and Canary Islands, as well as the less well-known autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Africa.…

Cuts to support for self-employed women in Spain

While the raft of austerity measures brought in by Rajoy's government in Spain over the summer gained European-wide attention, the international press limited itself to reporting the €65bn headline figure, and scant attention was given to the details of where the cuts would fall.

What if Spain taxed profits instead of work?

I'm no economist, but it seems only logical to me that both employing people and working as a freelancer should be made as cheap and easy as possible, and that taxes should be levied if and when profits are made.

European Boardroom Quotas

Quotas are accused of being unworkable, unfair, and even economically dangerous. In fact, all the evidence shows they are the only policy that can deliver equality of opportunity and drive business performance. Here's why:

Vegetarian individualism and community values: a necessary trade off?

Vegetarians and Pescetarians, Freegans and Vegans - a few decades ago they'd all be considered crackers, but these days you'll know many of them, and might be one yourself. I don't want to debate the rights and wrongs of vegetarianism, after all people become vegetarians for all sorts of reasons - medical, moral, and appetitive.…

Trapped in the Long Tail?

Chris Anderson’s Long Tail was published last year and made quite a splash. As the Editor of Wired magazine, and with a slew of academic research to back him up, Anderson is one of the new media gurus leading from the front of an overcrowded field of web 2.0 experts. The book, and original Wired…