Opinion

Our monthly feature seeks to offer open-minded, clarifying, and meaningful responses to readers’ questions about spirituality. Send your questions to The Resident. I was asked this week about [...]

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter” – Winston Churchill Welcome to summer, or the ‘silly season’ as this time of year is known in certain [...]

If you think today is a miserable time to be British (given Brexit and its associated economic and political chaos), spare a thought for those Britons who lived through the early 1990s. A severe [...]

The final event in the Algarve History Association (AHA) 2018-2019 concert season is special. In October 2018, young Italian students came from Milan to the Algarve to perform at the Regional [...]

When my lovely wife visited the United States of America recently, after nearly five years away, some of her family and friends asked the same question – “When are you coming back home?” To be [...]

Ask Afpop In this new monthly column, afpop, Portugal’s largest foreign residents’ association, aims to answer some of the most frequently-asked questions by members. Question: I’ve started [...]

Robot wars The Barbican Centre, on the northern edge of the City of London, has a reputation for hosting ground-breaking exhibitions and this certainly continues with their current offering, “AI: [...]

Imagine a life where you are surrounded by colours every time you hear music, or that you can taste words, that letters are always colourful and numbers have personalities! This is what it is [...]

Our monthly feature seeks to offer open-minded, clarifying, and meaningful responses to readers’ questions about spirituality. Send your questions to The Resident. Ref D. Taylor-Smith letter to [...]

COMMENT Democracy inevitably involves different opinions and often heated debate, but the nature of political diversity is much less toxic in Portugal than in many other European states, [...]