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Dominique Searle

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Journalism and diplomacy.Gibraltar rep to UK 2015-2025 prev Gibraltar Chronicle Editor X @domgibraltar

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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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All eyes on Burnham bounce, and are Gibraltar’s new residency rules ‘anti-British’
Everything is not as it seems as we head for tough economic times across Europe and Gibraltar get’s set for a new practical relationship with Spain and the EU with residency controls
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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‘Yep’ to Trump, UK roller-coasting to a coalition and Gibraltar’s Opposition promises eight year leadership fix
Andrew Mackinlay is optimistic and joins me to discuss politics today
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Tango with Milei, how the Falklands lives
I am joined by Richard Hyslop, Falklands Representative to the UK
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jamie Trinidad on the Gibraltar Treaty ukandeu.ac.uk/a-new-europe...
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A new European chapter for Gibraltar - UK in a changing Europe
Jamie Trinidad KC explains how the implementation of the UK-EU Agreement in respect of Gibraltar agreed by the UK and EU will affect both Gibraltar and Spain and the border between the two.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
VACANCY: WORLD STATESMAN. As the summers ends, political realities loom searledom.substack.com/p/vacancy-wo...
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VACANCY: WORLD STATESMAN. As the summers ends, political realities loom
Andrew Mackinlay joins me to reflect on the political season ahead
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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What challenges may lie ahead for the recent UK-EU Gibraltar Treaty? What is the EU we have just, effectively, joined compared to the one we were Brexited from a decade ago?
Listen now | Catherine Barnard Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law (Trinity College, Cambridge) and Senior Fellow of UK in a Changing Europe joins me to discuss the challenges ahead
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Cosmic music, magical thinking
One hundred years ago, in 1926, two of the most important figures in modern music, not just jazz, were born.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Elections from England to Gibraltar, and can we really go back to the EU?
My personal Substack on current affairs
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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SNAKES AND LADDERS
My article as published in the Gibraltar Chronicle The Correspondent column
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Thank you Jeeves…
My piece for this week’s the www.chronicle.gi column - The Correspondent
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Electorates - unhappy? unreasonable?
Andrew Mackinlay joins me to discuss the challenges facing Keir Starmer and the UK as well as what comes next as politics changes in the region around Gibraltar.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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After the week's election: where next for the United Kingdom?
Andrew Mackinlay joins me to discuss the change in British politics
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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After the week's election: where next for the United Kingdom?
Andrew Mackinlay joins me to discuss the change in British politics
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Starmer, the abyss and hope between Gibraltar and Spain
Andrew Mackinlay joins me for a chat on Trump, the Pope, the falling and the ascending.....
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Two-thirty at the dentist’s…
My latest The Correspondent column as published in the Gibraltar Chronicle
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Will former King Juan Carlos return finally to Spain? As the UK-EU Gibraltar Agreement unfolds, what are the pitfalls that could lie ahead?
I am joined at the Washroom Studio by William Chislett a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute, in Madrid. He covered Spain’s transition to democracy for The Times of London.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Talking to William Chislett from Madrid on Spain and his recent article on the Gibraltar Treaty after Brexit https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/commentaries/gibraltar-set-to-feel-the-impact-of-its...
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Talking to William Chislett from Madrid on Spain and his recent article on the Gibraltar Treaty after Brexit https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/commentaries/gibraltar-set-to-feel-the-impact-of-its...
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Spain a moderating force in a time of uncertainty...
As elections take place in Hungary, polls show Reform ahead in UK and Spaniards support NATO Andrew Mackinlay joins me to reflect on where we are heading to next.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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When on Route 66…
As first published in the Gibraltar Chronicle column THE CORRESPONDENT
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Droning our way to inflation and a black cab into the future....
Listen now | Andrew Mackinlay joins me to reflect on current affairs affecting UK and the Rock
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Oil, Starmer and where we go next
Andrew Mackinlay joins me for a new edition of A Hard Place
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Oil, Starmer and where we go next
Andrew Mackinlay joins me for a new edition of A Hard Place
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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The keys to the gates….
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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One foot in ‘another place’
So who might be Lord Calpe? Or better said, will there be a Lord Calpe?
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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The border between Gibraltar and Spain about to vanish...
What will Opposition Leader Keith Azopardi do when Parliament votes? Support? Abstain?
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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The border between Gibraltar and Spain about to vanish...
What will Opposition Leader Keith Azopardi do when Parliament votes? Support? Abstain?
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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Stop the music! Hold the front page!
First published in my The Correspondent column in the Gibraltar Chronicle
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Information, disinformation, shenanigans and the role of defence in our lives today
Andrew Mackinlay joins me to discuss recent events.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Propaganda-free day
Let the press do its job, press do your job
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Trump a relativist? Starmer blocks Burnham. Gibraltar sets April 10 target for removing Europe's last border
Talking around the issues that could change our future.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Dominique Searle | Substack
Freelancer writer. Former Gibraltar Rep to UK 2015 - 2025; GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE - 1984, 1990 News Editor, 1996 - 2015 Editor; KUSUMA TRUST GIBRALTAR - CEO 2000 - 2015; M.B.E. 2004 (journalism) Stringer...
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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2001: a Spain Odyssey
Some 25 years after Peter Hain, as Europe Minister, led a campaign for Blair for a joint-sovereignty deal with Spain over Gibraltar, my recording of the interview that broke the story.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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2001: a Spain Odyssey
Some 25 years after Peter Hain, as Europe Minister, led a campaign for Blair for a joint-sovereignty deal with Spain over Gibraltar, my recording of the interview that broke the story.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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2001: a Spain Odyssey
Some 25 years after Peter Hain, as Europe Minister, led a campaign for Blair for a joint-sovereignty deal with Spain over Gibraltar, my recording of the interview that broke the story.
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Labour row erupts after Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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After Davos, the rethink
Parliamentary privilege and really telling the public what's being talked about
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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K.C., que no! Down the rabbit hole
As first published The Gibraltar Chronicle
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My article on the Gibraltar Chronicle app and thought you’d be interested. Your Correspondent K.C., que no! Down the rabbit hole
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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ICE, REFORM AND THE ELECTORATE
Is 2026 a year of change for UK and Gibraltar?
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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ICE, REFORM AND THE ELECTORATE
Is 2026 a year of change for UK and Gibraltar?
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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2026 Rabbits out of the hat or canards
Trump, Picardo, McGrail et al
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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2026 Rabbits out of the hat or canards
Trump, Picardo, McGrail et al
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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THE GHOST OF GIBRALTAR PAST….
Reflections on the McGrail Inquiry and local politics
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My latest The Correspondent column in chronicle.gi today 'The Ghost of Gibraltar past' looks at McGrail Inquiry and more...
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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The craggy path
A look at Nicola Sturgeon's recent auto-biography
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Holding Together?
Listen now | New player for Gibraltar's next General Election, Nick Calamaro hopes to change government...
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Europe, erasure and the rest of us....
Are we listening to the warnings around us?
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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Dominique Searle @domgibraltar.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Europe, erasure and the rest of us....
Are we listening to the warnings around us?
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