The decision to change the Saborea Lanzarote food fair, which has been an annual highlight until now, to a biennial event means that we won’t be heading up to La Villa de Teguise to sample the best of the island’s produce and cookery this month.

Isabel Rodríguez, Spain’s Housing Minister, was last month criticised by the left-wing ERC, who accused the government of “turning this into the legislature of speculators, rentiers, and big landlords” by failing to regulate short-term lets, while at the same time pumping money into private markets.