AS OPAQUE AS IT IS UNDERWHELMING

you admit to your failures, no one dies other than perhaps a little bit of the ego which in my experience is no bad thing, from time to time at least.

The advice may be 5,000 years old but it appears not to have been learned by many: “The wise man (or woman) considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teacher.” (Lao Tzu) Having tried this out, I can confirm that it works. Maybe in the next 5,000 years some others may even take this advice to heart.

straight answer. Mijas gets a flat ZERO for open access to data, closely followed by a meagre 14 per cent in financial transparency. As a taxpayer, this disturbs me. It doesn’t do much better in transparency for contracting of services at only 33 per cent transparency.

I am far from being an apologetic foreigner in this strange land. When I pay my way as I have done for over 20 years