Andrew Ede
Background in business publishing. Started an online blog about Mallorca in 2005, which went daily in 2007, covering culture, environment, history, politics, tourism and more. Became a regular contributor to the Bulletin in 2010 before joining the staff a few years later.
The Blog
Removing communism: the past lives on
In Spain, the PSOE government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero from 2004 to 2011 introduced the law of historical memory, an aspect of which was the removal of Francoist symbols.
Viewpoint
Cosmetic exercises
Magalluf is part of the island's heritage, and there are toponymic studies to highlight this.
The Blog
Another eighteen million down the drain
Playa de Palma, the marketing dream of the sixties, has once more been exposed as an institutional nightmare.
Viewpoint
Penalising town halls
It is generous of the government to pay the interest, but what interest will there be if bank deposits are raided?
Enjoying Majorca
Print in Majorca: unionism, Calafat and Guasp
Gabriel Guasp in 1579 established a printing firm which remained in existence until 1958.
The Blog
The tourism jobs merry-go-round
AETIB followed ATB, the former Balearic Tourism Agency, which used to be responsible for promotion.
Viewpoint
Statements of the obvious
The IVA raised by the regions goes into the Spanish government's regional financing distribution system.
Viewpoint
The only certainty is uncertainty
This crystal-ball gazing isn’t as straightforward as in the past.
Northern Spotlight
Overrun by motor homes
This all said, romantic and simple though it might be to park a motor home by a beach, it isn’t as simple as it seems if these vehicles cause a genuine problem.
The Blog
The convenience of funding governments
Antoni Noguera of Més, a former Palma mayor, has described the Ley Montoro as a “fraud” perpetrated against town halls...
Viewpoint
A market without visitors?
As things currently stand, there won’t be any stands for the Balearics.
The Week in Tourism
The slowly disappearing Globalia
Iberia has the upper hand in these negotiations, but it has also of course been badly affected by the crisis.
The Blog
Youth, tourism monoculture and Covid
Some graffiti in Santanyi is merely a reminder that the rebels are still there and are spending their summer in idle contemplation of idleness - now and in the future.
Viewpoint
Living in a cave
Now that Catalonia has opted for the cave route, might the Balearic government follow suit?
The Blog
The fifty-nine go on holiday
Given this, here’s a question? Do they still receive their living allowance for the inconvenience of having to be based in Majorca?
Viewpoint
The good guys of travel
The UK quarantine for the Balearics and the Canaries was the killer blow.
Viewpoint
Common sense and consistency
Everything points to the quarantine remaining for Spain, but with some safe health corridors with the Canaries and the Balearics.
Enjoying Majorca
Before and after: Miles Davis and jazz in Majorca
Miles Davis played Palma in 1986. The "before" of jazz in Majorca had the regime to contend with.
The Blog
The crisis and pointless comparisons
The figures will tell all. How long will it be before they are like those quoted above?
- Emergency declared on Ryanair flight bound for Palma from Dublin
- Mallorca ambassador Sir Bradley Wiggins has “lost” his Mallorca home
- Mallorca restaurants losing clients, tourists tighten their belts
- Mallorca hotelier - "I wouldn't go to a place where I perceived there to be animosity towards tourists"
- Mallorca needs to remember price is king
Viewpoint
Smoke and mirrors
I suspect that we are about to be presented with yet more assertions to do with misleading information - that conjured up by governments to hide the truths of Covid.
Andrew Ede 14/08/2020 02:52