Hundreds of thousands of self-employed workers all over Spain have received extremely nasty surprises over the last couple of years. For many of them, the COVID crisis of five years ago is far from over…

Lanzarote’s main fire station, or Consorcio Insular de Emergencias (Island Emergency Consortium) is located in northern Arrecife, a few streets away from the hospital. Outside the building are a row of shiny, brand new fire engines, a jet-ski and a recently-installed metal tank with a winch that will be used to thoroughly extinguish fires in electric vehicles.